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...much touched with your telegram on account of Captain Roald Amundsen's successful flight. I thank you and likewise congratulate you and the American people on the courageous flight success of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd. Without the aid of Lincoln Ellsworth, Captain Amundsen would have been unable to carry through his plan...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth's last big "blind spot" from Spitzbergen clear over to Alaska. The Norwegian Roald Amundsen, the Italian Colonel Nobile and the American Lincoln Ellsworth, biding their hour for this trip, denied that there was any competitive spirit between themselves and the two parties of heavier-than-air flyers. Theirs seemed the best chance of completing the map of the world, judging by the past...
Fortunately for civilized peoples, Roald Amundsen has a sense of the dramatic, a fondness for surprises truly theatrical, and also a practical ability in taking care of himself which leads to a triumphant conclusion. By providentially running into a strip of static, the fate of his expedition was shrouded in mystery sufficient to enlist the interest of the most blase...
That the news of the safe arrival of the Norge preempted more, than three quarters of the New York Times front page is a superb tribute to Roald Amundsen, dramatist. To startle a standard, conservative journal into heaving headlines is indeed a feat as remarkable as aerial exploration of the Arctic...