ANTARCTIC CLAIMS
GERMAN EXPEDITION GOING SOUTH ACTION BY UNITED STATES SUGGESTED. APPROVAL WITHHELD BY COMMITTEE. By Telegraph— Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 23. The State Department has advised Congress that Germany is about tc send an expedition to the Antarctic to establish territorial claims. This is revealed with the publication of the House Appropriation Committee hearings.
The committee declined to approve an appropriation of 340,000 dollars for a United States expedition. The State Department, in divulging the German plans and urging American action, said the perfecting of United States claims might prove as important as the Louisiana Purchase and the purchase of Alaska, both of which were strongly opposed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 9
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107ANTARCTIC CLAIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 9
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