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a good word, too, for the other side. Credit is due on both sides, he is reported to have said on one occasion, and the relationship between pilots and managements is the finest in any industry. That, he said, was not entirely due to the pilots organizing but also to many officials. 
It is indicated that Behncke fancies himself as a writer. He has picked up considerable ability in this line in the last ten years. No Saint Expery (that fine French prose poet and aviator who wrote [[italicized]] Flight to Arras [[/italicized]]) is he. The ALPA president doesn't for in for subtleness. He hasn't been known in recent years to quote Tennyson's "Purple Bales."
[[bolded]] Common Sense [[bolded]]
Behncke is closer to becoming a member of the Thomas Paine essayists' school as evidenced in the inion monthly entitled "Common Sense" wherein he devoted about 2,000 words to sponsorship in behalf of airline pilots of section 802 of the Lea Bill. In this earnest, lengthy plug for federal jurisdiction over states' rights as necessary for the development of aviation, he showed himself a master of the cliche. This he evidenced by the following quotation from the editorial which complete statement he suggested that Congressman Lea insert in the record on HR 1012 (the

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