BLUEPRINT FOR WORLD

CIVIL AVIATION

The Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference of 1944 as Viewed by Four Members of the United States Delegation in Recent

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FOREWORD

THIS PAMPHLET PRESENTS four authoritative appraisals of the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference of 1944. Originally published as magazine articles, they analyze the accomplishments and implications of that Conference, which convened to draw up a blueprint for the orderly development of international civil

aviation.

The authors of the four articles, each a recognized authority in the field of international aviation, were members of the United States Delegation to the Chicago Conference. Adolf A. Berle, Jr., then Assistant Secretary of State and now United States Ambassador to Brazil, was Chairman of the Delegation and President of the Conference. Stokeley W. Morgan, Chief of the Aviation Division, Office of Transport and Communications Policy of the Department of State, was Secretary General of the Delegation. William A. M. Burden is Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, and Edward Warner is Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Mr. Morgan's article, delivered as an address before a conference of mayors at Miami, Florida, on January 2, appeared in the Department of State Bulletin of January 7, 1945. Mr. Berle's article was printed in the March 1945 issue of Harper's Magazine; Mr. Burden's, in the March 1945 Atlantic Monthly; and Mr. Warner's, in the April 1945 Foreign Affairs. For permission to reprint the last three articles, acknowledgment is gratefully made to the publishers of these magazines.