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...population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
This week, as U.S. strategists studied the azimuthal map of the Arctic (see cut), it looked as though Seward had been right about Greenland; and Lansing wrong. The U.S. frontier is now on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to "Seward's Folly," the fortress of North America has a castellated outpost at the northwest angle in Alaska. But at the northeast angle it has only tenuous base rights, to expire with the peace...
Spending in the Arctic. After listing savings, Minister Claxton got around to what the armed forces would retain. They will keep in operation the Northwest Staging Route (a series of airfields along the Alaska Highway) and the Churchill air base, and they will continue to expand the system of weather stations in the Arctic. Canada will cooperate closely with the U.S. in operating the stations...
...North Pole is a strategic hotspot. Over the ice-capped roof of the world run the shortest air routes from Russia to the U.S. Last week, the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in Norway's bleak Spitsbergen archipelago, within the Arctic Circle (Spitsbergen to Pittsburgh: 3,500 miles...
...from such fun & games was a grisly speech by Major General Curtis E. LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. The future looked black to General LeMay, except for deadly flashes of atomic light. "Our frontier now lies across the Arctic wastes of the polar region. . . . The war will start with bombs and guided missiles falling on the U.S. . . . Any of the principal industrial nations can, by say 1950, develop a controlled air weapon that will deliver several tons of explosives with great accuracy over ranges of 3,000 to 6,000 miles...