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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed document with extensive autograph annotations (in red ink), n.d. [c.1944], a page (numbered '2') from a wartime memorandum on civil aviation, suggesting that arguments for 'complete internationalisation' (which he caricatures as 'pilots of every country from Peru to China ... flying every kind of machine in every direction') smack of idealism and will be unacceptable to all the major powers, foreseeing control of civil aviation falling under a future 'world organisation', and adding 'there is much to be said for "a fair field and no favour"'; a footnote considers the post-war needs of British civil aviation, which would require fewer than 40 aircraft a month to be built 'as compared with the 400 heavy bombers a month we shall soon be making', one page, 4to (punch hole)..
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed document with extensive autograph annotations (in red ink), n.d. [c.1944], a page (numbered '2') from a wartime memorandum on civil aviation, suggesting that arguments for 'complete internationalisation' (which he caricatures as 'pilots of every country from Peru to China ... flying every kind of machine in every direction') smack of idealism and will be unacceptable to all the major powers, foreseeing control of civil aviation falling under a future 'world organisation', and adding 'there is much to be said for "a fair field and no favour"'; a footnote considers the post-war needs of British civil aviation, which would require fewer than 40 aircraft a month to be built 'as compared with the 400 heavy bombers a month we shall soon be making', one page, 4to (punch hole).. The memorandum must precede the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, signed on 7 December 1944.