that If the Soviet has acquired anything at all it most certainly Is not a local habitation but merely_a name. Tt will be idle now for Russia to approach the nations of the world and aver that it is suffering from land starvation because It has no colonies, for by one sweep of the per Moscow' has acquired the whole of the North Pole, and what is more, has apparently occupied it. That this lew movable territory is of very Tittle economic value may be directly traceable to the fact that ice-floes Produce nothing, nor can they be mined for mineral wealth, but there lying about with no one to claim it, and so the Soviet Just gathered' up this unconsidered trifle ud made it its own. Viewing all the circumstances it seems unlikely that either Britein or the United States will take any steps to force Russia 10 ive up its newly acquired territory, so that this latest attempt at colonial expansion may be regarded unqualified success.
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