Antarctic research and expeditions vol. 14

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BTS 102/1(14) 1 folder, 192 pages. Pages are out of order. Manuscript notes and documents. Some documents are hard to read. English and Afrikaans versions of the Meeting of the South African National Committee for the International Geophysical Year 1957-58, held at Pretoria 17-18 August 1955. Copy of the proceedings and recommendations of the Conference on Antarctica held in Paris from the 6th to 10th July 1955. Article in French from the “Journal Officiel de la Republique Française” regarding legislation conferring administrative and financial autonomy on the French possessions in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, 9 August 1955. Letter from the Office of the High Commissioner to the Secretary for External Affairs regarding the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58. Articles from “The New York Times” between the dates 1 September 1955 to February 1956 regarding Antarctica. Articles from the “Rand Daily Mail”: ‘Claim to Antarctic Bases by Russia Believed Likely’, 16 September 1955, and ‘Russia to Set Up Polar Science Bases’, 17 October 1955. Record of a meeting called by the Commonwealth Relations Office on 1 September, 1955, to discuss certain aspects on the International Geophysical Year. Letter from the Secretary for External Affairs to the Secretary for Transport informing him that the Australian Minister of External Affairs has recommended to the Australian Government that a second Antarctic weather station be established on the Antarctic mainland. Document regarding the U.K’s Applications to the International Court of Justice in respect of Argentine and Chilean encroachments in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, Argentina and Chile’s refusal to accept the submission, and a proposed increase of activity in the Falklands to maintain the U.K’s position there. Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Reports, 1955. Text of a Parliamentary Question on the forthcoming Trans-Antarctic expedition to be put to the U.K. Prime Minister on 25 October, 1955, and his Draft Reply. Extracts from “British News”: ‘Antarctic Expedition Prepares to Leave’, 26 October, 1955, and Broadcast by Mr. MacMillan on certain aspects of the International Geographical Year, 1 September 1955. Extracts titled ‘Soviet Scientific Bases in the Antarctic’ and ‘Slava Whaling Flotilla Leaves for Antarctic’. Articles from “The Star”: ‘Russian Antarctic expedition large and well found’, 1 November 1955, and ‘Antarctic “truce” renewed’, 22 November 1955. Press Releases by the Australian Department of External Affairs titled: ‘Australian Plans Exploration of Inaccessible Antarctic Coast’, 13 November 1955. ‘Australian Antarctic Expedition: Southern Exploration journey Under Way’, 28 November 1955. ‘Antarctic Exploration’, 2 December 1955. ‘Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1956: “Kista Dan” to Sail Tomorrow’, 26 December 1955. ‘Antarctic Expedition: Good Progress Reported’, 7 January 1956. ‘Prince Charles Mountains: Antarctic Range Named’, 23 January 1956. 3 Press Releases regarding the Australian and U.S.S.R. Antarctic Expeditions. Document from the U.S. Embassy outlining the need to adopt a common policy towards any official Soviet overtures on relation to the Antarctic, consultations between the Australian, New Zealand, South African and U.K. Embassies to prepare the ground for a joint approach by the Ambassadors to the U.S. Secretary of State, and a draft of the four power note to be sent to Dulles, the Australian attachment to this note, as well as correspondence between the Soviet and Australian Government’s regarding Soviet request for facilities in connection with the International Geophysical Year. Copy of Article from “The New York Times”, 11 December 1955, ‘Race for Antarctica: The Last Great Unexplored Continent’. Article gives an analysis of U.S. policy regarding questions of national claims in Antarctica. Note received from the Australian Department of External Affairs summarising the meeting of members of the Australian and Soviet Antarctic Party’s, 17 February 1956. Article from “The New York Times”, 18 February 1956, ‘India Bids U.N. Debate ‘Question of Antarctica’ and other documents relating to this Question. Translation from the Soviet Press regarding the Establishment of Contact Between the Antarctic Expeditions of the U.S.S.R. and Australia, “Pravda” 2 February 1956. Newspaper Article (source and date unknown), ‘UNO May Be Asked to Rule Over the Antarctic’.