No Tension In Antarctica
LONDON, Marcli 12. The spe(|ial correapondent of The Timea on board the sloop Snipe, which, with the eruiaer Nigeria, has returned to Port Htanlcy after an nine-day rrui.se, during which they took Mr. Miies Clifford, Governor of the i'alkland lalands, on a tour of the bases iliegally established by Argentina and G'hile iu the-United Ivingdom sector of the Ajitaretic, says the aim of the operation was not to intiniidnie Argentinians and Ghileans, as implied in certain aiarmist cireles. This would merely have ' helped Argentina and Chile to cJaim that they Were the injured parties. Its purpose was rather to give proof of Britain's serious interest in the area and to stabilise a situation where an unequal balance of naval power inight possibly in the future prompt rash action. The correspondent adds: "The dignilied and friendly behaviour of the British officers, both in the delivery and the receipt of the numerous protests exchanged, was in welcome contrast to efforts. of nationalist circles in Buenos Aires and Santiago.to work up tehsion over the area. This tension does not exist in the Antarctic itself, where reason and the habits of civilised man scem to lind survival eakier than in vvarmer clhnates. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1948, Page 3
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202No Tension In Antarctica Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1948, Page 3
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