U.S. ANTARCTIC DISCOVERIES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 15

U.S. ANTARCTIC DISCOVERIES

Sovereignty Claim Urged WORK OF ELLSWORTH AND BYRD ftnrrcsD fkbss miocutto*—coptbimt.) (Received February 21, 8.36 p ; m.) NEW YORK, February 21. That Congress should immediately officially claim sovereignty over the Antarctic areas explored by Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd and Mr Lincoln Ellsworth is argued by Professor Charles Cheney Hyde, professor of international law at Columbia University, in an article published to-day. He states that the mere act of claiming possessions for the United States by planting flags constitutes a flimsy claim, that might easily disappear. "It ought to be clear that if the United States desires to keep, or to take advantage of, what men like Byrd, and more recently Ellsworth, have valiantly sought to win," he said, "Congress should lose no time in proclaiming the fact and in declaring to the world that there is a region in the Antarctic which belongs to Uncle Sam."