Transatlantica (Cont'd)

Pan American Airways has been ready to fly the Atlantic for at least two years. But it could get permission to land in Europe only by agreeing to share the route on a reciprocal basis with Britain, which had no planes commercially able to span an ocean. In the past six months slow-moving Britain has finally acquired a fleet of Short Brothers flying boats capable of making transatlantic tests.

But there still have been none because Canada stubbornly insisted that Montreal must be the western terminus of the projected route. Last week this final obstacle to transatlantic service was removed when Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant U. S. Secretary of Commerce, announced in Washington that Canada had finally knuckled under and that the U. S., Great Britain and Canada had ironed out their difficulties.

According to Colonel Johnson, the Post Office will soon invite bids for four transatlantic mail flights a week. Route in summer will be from Ireland across the Atlantic to the big new airport near Botwood, Newfoundland (TIME, March 1), where it will split into two legs, one going straight down the coast to New York with a stop at Shediac, N. B., the other to Montreal and then down the Hudson Valley to New York. In winter the planes will fly via the Azores and Bermuda.

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