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...still such anxieties, U.S. diplomats drew up other inspection zones of U.S. and Russian lands in the Arctic, and Dulles won European support by making inspection of European zones conditional upon Russian agreement to inspection elsewhere. Dulles made these proposals...
...continental U.S., Alaska and the Aleutians, Canada, and the U.S.S.R. "will be open to inspection." If the Soviet Union turns down this broad proposal, the four powers "with the consent of Denmark and Norway" propose an Arctic zone containing everything within the Arctic Circle except Finland and Sweden, plus those parts of Alaska, Kamchatka south of the Arctic Circle, and all the Aleutian and Kurile Islands...
Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...
...operations will be attempts by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to launch research satellites loaded with instruments to observe the earth, the high atmosphere and influences from space. But other programs are hardly less glamorous. Eleven nations have planned or set up stations on the hostile Antarctic Continent. The Arctic is getting similar close attention. So are unfrequented parts of the oceans, the rainiest tropical forests and the driest deserts...
...would have a very sure idea of what was going on. Intended as a means for initial communication, "open skies" might possibly breed increased fear and suspicion, especially should either side find it difficult to account for various mysterious installations. Even if aerial inspection were limited to flights over Arctic airfields it could neither check surprise attack effectively nor inspire much mutual trust. Inspecting planes would have to be searched by counter-inspectors, and even with this there would always be a lurking dread...