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but whether the Gov't will press at this time
their legal claim and ignore the U.S. suggestion
that the whole matter be held in trust until
Russias moral claim be considered, and further
invite by their immediate claim to Wrangel
the question as to their legal claim to other
more valuable islands to which they have a
strong moral right but at present a very
imperfect legal right due to disappointing delays
in establishing prots last year. This is a matter
that will remain in doubt until the Dept of Justice
bring in their report which I am promised will
be in a very few days / One item of news
I learned today and that is that J. Craig is
going North at once on the Arctic in charge of Bernier