181. Editorial Note

Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon addressed the Western States Council at San Francisco on November 9 on the subject of “International Air Transportation Policy”. The text of his address is printed in Department of State Bulletin, December 2, 1957, page 877.

James R. Durfee, Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, commented on the address in a letter of November 14 to Dillon, in which he expressed his concurrence with the major points in the address and stated that these points needed greater emphasis for public and Congressional understanding of “our problem”. (Department of State, Central Files, 611.0094/11–1457)