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Most wars have been fought for less cause than the Arctic crisis which last week vexed Norwegians and infuriated Danes...
...merrymaking. The day was Nov. 1 and Professor Wegener's 50th birthday. A few gentle cheers of Hoch and Gesundheit were swallowed by the Greenland silence; then, a solemn shaking of hands all around, a hollowly hopeful Auf Wiedersehen; and Professor Wegener and Rasmus sledged westward into the Arctic twilight...
Urriolagoitia was Bolivian consul general in London but had never been in the eastern wilds of his own country. Bee-Mason was an Arctic cinematographer. Duguid had never been outside Europe. Luckily for the expedition they had not gone very far into the jungle when they ran into Alexander Siemel (TIME, April 13, et ante) whom Duguid calls Tiger-Man because he is a famed jaguar hunter (South Americans call jaguars tigers). Siemel saw them through many a tight place...
...packed off to far wildernesses. But not this year. They visit Mr. Fiala, gossip wistfully a while, then go mooning home. He has perforce reduced his advertising. The exploring business this season is mainly professional. Mr. Fiala's big customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When...
White Silence. To Greenland last July went a party of 15 youthful English scientists headed by H. G. Watkins, 23, to chart part of a prospective Arctic air route between England and Canada (TIME, July 14). One of the party was Augustine Courtauld, 27, son of rich Tycoon Samuel Augustine Courtauld (artificial silk). He volunteered to remain alone through the winter on the Greenland ice cap to make meteorological observations. According to their agreement, Watkins led a party from the base camp near Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally...