Request for inscription of Antarctica on agenda of United Nations General Assembly vol. 1

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BTS 102/2/8 1 folder, 65 pages. Pages are out of order. Manuscript notes on some documents. Contains duplicates. Some documents are hard to read. Newspaper clipping from Die Burger, 29.2.1956, entitled “Menige Land het al ’n Kleim: Indië wil V.V.O. die Voog oor Suidpoolstreek Maak”. Letter from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Secretary for Transport, 7_abstract.3.56, entitled “Inscription of the Question of Antarctica on the Provisional Agenda of the Eleventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly”. Undated letter from Australian High Commission entitled “Antarctica: Indian Decisions to put the ‘Antarctic Question’ on the U.N. General Assembly Agenda”. Memoranda from the Chilean Chargé d’Affaires and from South Africa as well as various correspondence from various sources in English and Afrikaans on the subject of the Indian Government’s request to put the ‘Antarctic Question’ on the U.N. General Assembly Agenda. Cutting from The Economist, 1.9.56, entitled “Who Owns the Unknown?”. Document from the Foreign Office entitled “Discussion between the Foreign Secretary and Mr. Lester Pearson, September 3, 1956: Antarctica”. Copy of explanatory memorandum entitled “The Peaceful Utilisation of Antarctica”. Document from Daily Wireless News, 18.10.56, entitled “India Explains Request for U.N. Debate on Antarctic”. Copy of the 11th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, 12.9.56, and various correspondence regarding.