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THROUGHOUT the post-War period, the development of civil aviation in Great Britain as in other countries has been warped by military demands. The report on the Economics of Air Transport in Europe submitted by M. Henri Bouché to the Air Transport Co-operation Committee of the League of Nations in 1935 revealed not only the uneconomic position of civil aviation in Europe generally, but also the way in which national prejudices or military arguments have deprived civil aviation of the freedom which would enable it to reap the advantages inherent in its potentially greater speed as compared with surface transport. In observations on the recently issued report of the Committee of Inquiry into Civil Aviation, which was under the chairmanship of Lord Cadman, the Government has admitted that the unprecedented effort of the Air Ministry and the aircraft industry-of the last two years in the military sphere have accentuated the neglect of civil attention, although it is now thought to be possible to give further assistance to civil aviation and to improve its organization.
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Civil Aviation in Great Britain. Nature 141, 571–573 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141571a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141571a0