§ Mr. COCKSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any of the Governments represented at the Disarmament Conference have declared 2315W themselves in principle opposed to the internationalisation, or international control, or supervision of civil aviation; and, if so, will he give the dates on which such declarations have been made?
§ Sir J. SIMONThe Governments of the Argentine, Canada, Japan and the United States declared in a document dated 3rd April, 1933, that in non-European regions they considered the internationalisation or international control of civil aviation presented insuperable difficulties to fair, just and reasonable application and was in consequence not acceptable. Apart from this declaration, I am not aware that any Government opposed in terms the idea of internationalisation or international control of civil aviation, but I should add that, pending the working out of some effective practical scheme, there has been no general agreement among other Governments on this principle.
§ Mr. COCKSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any of the Governments represented at the Disarmament Conference have definitely declared themselves opposed to the abolition of military aviation with or without the internationalisation or control of civil aviation; and if he will give the dates on which such declarations were made?
§ Sir J. SIMONI do not think that any Government has explicitly declared itself opposed to the abolition of military aviation, but it is generally recognised that, without accompanying measures designed effectively to prevent the misuse of civil aviation, such abolition is not practicable.