The announcement by the Russian Weather Bureau, to the effect, that the lowest temperature in the Soviet Union on Wednesday was recorded at the North Pole, is taken in some quarters as an indication that Russia Ws persisting in annexing the North Pole despite the objections of Britain and the United States. It looks very much as.though the world at large is, Being "confronted with another of those fairs eccomplis which play large "apart. in" the international policies of totalitarian states. Never~ theless it should give rise to no great amount of heart burning, for it is reported that there Is no land at the North Pole, but merely an_ice-floc which is drifting southward, and may in the course of time, perhaps a very Tong time, completely melt away,
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