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XANo1l3. for September 1952. THE ARCTIC ROUTE - STRATEGIC SVALBARD. In the last few weeks, three different sets of news were mentioned in the intemational press. Strangely enough, they were not given the imoortance they warrant and especially they were not linke@ to each other and were not shown in the total picture of which they form a vital parte One newS mentioned that Royal Canadian and US Air Forces had become aware of increasing Russian air e tivities in the arctic. “+hese planes are supposedly Leaving? the important and northern=most Siberian bases of Cape Chelyushkin or from one of the air fields establishea in the Murmansk and Archangelsk area. Bypasssing either Severnaja Semlja forxthexvkans}}xex ("Nordland") or the island group of Semlja Fuanzisa Josifa, they take towards the North role. From here, some of them are rpported to return to Soviet territory; others are said to continue further until they reach the North-American continent and, flying along its northern= most coast line return to Siberia, especially to the vast Kolyma basis. The second is connected with the large NATO manoecuvers, foressen in the Notbh European and North Atlantic area for the middle of the present months It was to be held on tr ree different spots: Northern Norway, Southern Norway and Denmamk. Hussian reaction to that plan was a stwong one. It expressed itself through marked pressure, exercised on the three Scandinavian countries: on Sweden for planning Baltic manaeuvers at the same time; on Denmank for violating the 1945 agreement by accepting the use of Bornholm island by others than purely Danish units; on Norway, for building important air basis all along its coastal line and linking their use with NATO movementSe these pressures and the marked Russian sensibility in the areas of the Baltic, the sorth atlantic and the Arctic Seas, has aroused mervousness and apprehension in the Scandinavian worlde Taking this situation into accoynt, the NATO manoeuvres are Limiting the area they expected to cover and will be careful in avoiding those waters and territories where strongest reactions might be | fearede ri eae aS un “ugust 22, finaily, the Fublic Law Division of the moscow Academy of Sciences published an official communique. The four Aretice Seas - those of Kara, Laptev, Zastern Jiberia ond Chukotsk - were declared Soviet national territory, on which the soviet Union has exclusive and absolute sovereignity. This sovereign rights extend not only to the, soastal waters or the islands, but equally to the entire Folar zone. "his decision was explained by the fact that these waters and territories were first d@scovered and explored by Russia and also because they prolong Soviet ierritorye It was emphasized that this clear definition of national waters was to oppose so-called American ambitions, claiming for themselves the total pessession of all Arctic waters and this with an aggressive view in mind.s.--.- Undoubtedly, - by the fact of its largescale international and strategic~imptieations, - this hoscow communique S6.
