It was a fortunate thing thet parttcupants in the recent long-distance and world fights were not unnecessarily bothered by passport procedure otherwise some of them would be still in the alr. These fights may appear to be very simple affairs when reduced {o terms of time and speed, but the organization and preliminary' reparation needed before the machine gets into the alr are extensive, Captain Curcurs, of the Latvian Atr Force, according to a message from Danzig, has set out for the Far East in a jaunt in a hom made sports plane. He originally Proposed that he should make the ight across Russia but the Moscow Government declined to give him permission, Therefore, he has to come the long way round and the result of Moscow's action is that instead of obtaining two or three per-milts necessary for the original route he had to obtain no fewer than 25 permits from the different countries through which he must pass on hig way te the Far East. This experience might suggest an iden to the League of Nations, which would help to Justify its continued existence atter the deadly assaults of its critics. An international passport. office which would handle these affairs and save people the trouble of going round from embassy to embassy or engaging in voluminous correspondence with governments would facilitate matters not only for airmen but tourists.
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