ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (Received Jan. 14, at 1 a.m.) “ While indicating his interest in Lincoln Ellsworth’s claim to 80,000 miles of territory, Mr Cordell Hull said he was not prepared to comment yet,” says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. “ The question requires considerable study before officials will be in a position to say anything with regard to the American attitude. It may, however, well enter as a factor in the rival claims of Governments to territory in the polar regions owing to potential aeroplane bases. It is thought that when the sovereignty question of various Pacific islands is cleared up the United States plans to turn consideration to sovereignty in Antarctica, where it - is felt that a long line of discoveries has laid a broad basis for asserting American claims.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 13
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142ANTARCTIC TERRITORY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 13
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