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 settlement with a view to utilization are not practical and could not

 be expected to achieve results greater than 'the usual type of scientific
 project. Indeed, the practical problem of attracting adequate finan-
 cial support for such a venture would seem to be insuperable in view
 of the difficulties which in the past have confronted sponsors of
 expeditions of a limited scope.
   Sincerely yours,                       For the Secretary of State:
                                                    JACK 'K. McFALL
                                                  Asstant Secretary
 702.o22/9-1250
 Memorandum    of Conversation, by the Officer in Charge of British
     Commomwealth and Northern European Affairs (Hulley)

 CONNFIDENTIAL                    [WASHIRNGTON, September 7, 1950.
 Participants: Mr. Rodriguez      A., Minister    Counselor, Chilean
                  Embassy
                Mr. Owen-NWCO
                Mr. Hulley--BNA
                Mr. Hilliker-BNA
   Mr. Rodriguez asked to come in to talk about the question of an
Antarctic mod8 vivendi and the Soviet memorandum           concerning
Antarctica of June 9. [8?] 2
   Mr. Rkodriguez had with him    the Spanish text of a draft press
 release which he said the Chilean Foreign Office planned to release
 very shortly.! Mr. Owen translated the announcement into English.
 I asked Mr. Rodriguez 'f 'he had seen the Argentine reply to the
 Soviet note along these lines. He replied that he had not. As his

 'George H. Owen of the Office of North and West Coast Affairs, Bureau of
 Inter-American Affairs.
 'Ante, p. 911.
 3 In a declaration made public on September 12, 1950, the Chilean Government
 took note of the Soviet communication of June 8 to the United States and
six
 other countries regarding the Antarctic, reiterated the traditional Chilean
policy
 that only Chile and Argentina had rights in the "American Antarctic,"
and
 asserted that the claim to territory in the Antarctic by the USSR had no
basis
 in fact and was inadmissible. The text 'of the Chilean declaration, as It
appeared
 in the Santiago newspaper La Nacion, was transmitted to the Department of
 State as an enclosure to despatch 259, September 12, from Santiago, not
printed
 (702.022/9-42150).
 4In a note of August 25, 1950, the text of which was released for publication
 on August 30, the Argentine -Government replied to the Soviet memorandum
of
 June 8. The Argentine note asserted that the "Argentine Antarctic"
and neighbor-
 ing archipelagoes were Argentine national territory not subject to any general
 regime which might be set up for the Antarctic continent, that the "Argentine
Antarctic" forms part of the "South American Antarctic" which
belongs ex-
clusively to the jurisdiction of Argentina and Chile, and that the claim
of the
USSR was unacceptable. The text of the Argentine note was transmitted to
the
Department of State as an enclosure to despatch 301, August 30, from Buenos
Aires, not printed (702.022/8.-'3050).
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