Antarctic research and expeditions vol. 15

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BTS 102/2(15) 1 folder, 150 pages. Pages are out of order. Some typed passages are hard to read. Manuscript notes and documents. Press Releases by Mr. R.G. Casey, Minister for the Australian Department of External Affairs: 19 Feb. 1956, regarding Antarctic Weather Research. 29 Feb. 1956, ‘Magnetic and Cosmic Ray Disturbances: Observations at Mawson’. 31 Mar. 1956, ‘Last U.S. Ship Quits Antarctica, Ending One Phase of Expedition’. 3 May 1956, ‘Antarctic Exploration: Discovery of New Mountain Range’. 4 July 1956, ‘New Antarctic Station’. 10 Sept. 1956, ‘Antarctic Expedition: Summer Programme Announced’. Newspaper clippings re the Antarctic taken from the “New York Times”, “The Cape Times”, “The Cape Argus”, “The Daily Worker”, “Izvestia”, “The Listener” and “The Interpreter” as well as certain articles from unknown sources. Document re contact between the Australian and Soviet Antarctic Parties. Letter to the Secretary for External Affairs from the Counsellor of Embassy in Washington re Soviet Activities in Antarctica. Summary of a Telegram from the Australian Department of External Affairs, the first re the Soviet request for transit facilities in Western Australia for its Antarctic expeditions and the second re the Indian decision to place “the Antarctic question” on the agenda of the next session of the U.N. General Assembly. Letter from the Embassy of the Union of South Africa in Washington D.C. to the Acting Secretary for External Affairs titled ‘Antarctica’ . Letter from the Department of External Affairs, Canada to the Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada, titled ‘Antarctica’. Extract from “Hansard”, 22 May 1956, ‘The Senate: Questions on Notice’. Report by Dr. B.R. Roberts of the Foreign Office Research Department on a visit to the Scott Polar Research Institute by members of the Soviet Arctic Research institute and Academy of Sciences, 8 May 1956. Copy of Broadcast from the Australian Broadcast Commission, 3 June 1956, by Miss Betty Archdale titled ‘World Affairs: International Claims in the Antarctic’. Statement to the Press by the Australian Minister for National Development, Senator W.H. Spooner, 5 May 1956, announcing the publication of a report on Magnetic Investigations carried out at Heard Island. Announcement by the Australian Minister for External Affairs of a £3000 donation by the firm of MacRobertson Pty. Ltd., towards the cost of the Government’s Antarctic Activities. Copy of Statement by the Australian Minister for the Navy on the Australian Antarctic Territory, 22 May, 1956. Two Extracts from the U.S. Information Service, 1 and 6 Aug. 1956, ‘Antarctic Conference Holds Seminars on IGY Plans’. Extract of a Minute dated 21 Aug., 1956, from Rio de Janeiro re the Falkland Islands and Antarctic dispute. Extract from a Minute date 27 Aug., 1956, by Dr. Roberts of the United Kingdom Foreign Office re his visit to the Soviet Union from 28 May to 9 June, 1956. Document re Soviet Interest in the Antarctic, Aug. 1956. French text of a decree made on the 18th Sept. 1956, by the Ministry of Overseas Territories, Paris, relative to the organisation of the administration of French Austral and Antarctic Territories. Falkland Islands Dependencies Surveys for 1956. Press Release by the American Embassy relating to U.S. participation in the Antarctic program of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. Letter, dated Sept.1956, in Afrikaans titled ‘Bouvet-Eiland En Russiese Deelneming In Antarktika Aan Die Aktiwiete Van Die Internasionale Geofisiese Jaar’.