ANTARCTIC CLAIMS
GERMAN EXPEDITION
NO AMERICAN ACTION
(Received June 24, 2 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, June 23. The State . Department has . advised Congress' that . Germany is about to send an expedition to the Antarctic to establish territorial "claims.. This was revealed with the publication of the United States expedition: Committee. ' . . The Committee declined to approve of a grant of .340,000 dollars for a United States ex>2d>tion.{ The Stat© Department, in divulging the German plans and urging American action, said the perfecting of United States claims might prove to be as> important as the Louisiana purchase and the purchase of Alaska, both, of which were strongly opposed 'at the time. Louisiana was bought from France in 1803 for, 15,000,000 dollars, plus the French spoliation claims of 3,750,000 dollars. It was originally a. French possession, was ceded ; to Spain in 1762, and purchased back, in 1800 by~ a secret deal between Napoleon arid the King of Spain. Interest accruements raised the total cost to the United States to 27,267,622 dollars. Alaska was purchased by ' treaty, from Russia j in 1867 for 7,200,000 dollars in gold,' no interest being charged. . Russia had been in. possession of Alaska since 1825, when -it was ceded to her by Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 147, 24 June 1939, Page 10
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202ANTARCTIC CLAIMS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 147, 24 June 1939, Page 10
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