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1945
1945 - 0028.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY 4TH, 1045 A Review of Agreements : Set-up of International Bodies : Technical Co-operation WITH the long deliberations ol the Chicago Confer-ence concluded, it is now possible to present a sum-mary review of its efforts and achievements. So long as the conference was in session, not only would it have required the agility and suppleness of a sporting-news broadcaster to comment upon its aerobntic vicissitudes, but a cohesive picture was hardly possible. Now that the book is closed one can ask what is really "in it. The distance in time is sufficient to give the mini- mum perspective necessary for an objective evaluation of thife results of the conference, allowing one to sort the impor- tant from the trivial, to see the positive sides as well as the obvious gaps in international air collaboration which it revealed. Fortunately, these results somewhat alleviate the initial picture. For five long weeks the delegates oi 52 nations were locked in a tourney to shape post-war aviation. And if those weeks revealed an inclination on the part of the major contestants to form their own code of rules and a basic inclination to agree to differ, the fact must not be over- looked that this was the first time that they met in the open. Without going into thr1 details of the fundamental differ- ences between the views held by the different participants, this conference nevertheless achieved a number of modest agreements far-reaching in their scope. Four principal agreements were reached: (1) The Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation ; (2) The Con- vention on International Civil Aviation; (3) The Inter- national Air Services Transit Agreement; and (4) The International Air Transport Agreement. The first document, signed by 34 nations (including the U.K.) sets up a Provisional International Civil Aviation Organisation of a technical and advisory nature of signatory sovereign states to last until a permanent organisation is created but not longer than three years. This organisation, which will have its seat in Canada, will meet annually and will be composed of an Assembly • based on equal representation and voting of all member states, and of a Council. The latter is to consist of: not more than 21 member states, elected by the Assembly for a period of two years. In electing Council members, the Assembly shall give "adequate representation" to mem- bers, of chief importance in air transport, and to those not otherwise included who contribute the largest provision of air navigation facilities, thu*s ensuring representation of all major geographical areas of the world. The International Council In addition to the usual powers and dutieselection of a non-voting president, officers, emt the Council will establish at least five su- groups, including a cprfimittee on air tee on air navigation, and a comr convention on cum aviation. These , the supervisiojr of the Council stud5J their respectufeiRfids. The clearing hou/e |or lufch ii as the5yees, etc.), fiary working art, a commit- international work under reporting on only act as a ' recommend for ,*•'• J.K. Delegation : (Left to right) G. G. Fitzmaurice, W. C. G. Cribbett, Sir Arthur Street, Lord Swinton (chairman), Sir George London, J. H. Magowan, ft. A. J. Walsh.
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