forcegn че OCT 15 '45 relations [CONFIDENTIAL] CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON Executive A A CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION, 77081 FEBRUARY 20, 23, MARCH 6, 9, 19, 20, 23, AND 26, 1945 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1945 The committee met at 9:30 a. m., pursuant to call, in the committee room in the Capitol, Senator Walter F. George presiding. Present: Senators George (presiding), Pepper, Green, Lucas, Guffey, Tunnell, La Follette, Vandenberg, White, Shipstead, Wiley, Bridges, and Austin. Also present: Senators Bailey and Brewster. Also present: Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State; Stokeley W. Morgan, Chief, Aviation Division, Office of Transportation and Communications, State Department; and L. Welch Pogue, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board. The committee had under consideration a proposed convention on international civil aviation. [Executive A, 79th Cong., 1st sess.1 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A To the Senate of the United States: THE WHITE HOUSE, March 12, 1945. With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith a certified copy of a convention on international civil aviation, concluded at the International Civil Aviation Conference at Chicago on December 7, 1944, and signed in the English language by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America, the Philippine Commonwealth, and certain other countries, as explained more fully in the report by the Acting Secretary of State, which report I transmit herewith for the information of the Senate. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. (Enclosures: (1) Report of the Acting Secretary of State; (2) convention on international civil aviation (certified copy). The PRESIDENT, The White House: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, The undersigned, the Acting Secretray of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to ratification, if his judgment approve thereof, a certified copy of a convention on international civil aviation, concluded at the International Civil Aviation Conference at Chicago on December 7, 1944, and signed as of that date, in the English language, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America, the Philippine Commonwealth, |