Monday, Mar. 17, 1930
Homing Byrdmen
Twoscore lusty, hungry-eyed men knew last week what it is like to see the brown earth and green-growing things after 15 months amid ice, snow, rocks, and the winds of the end of the world. They were the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, heroes by radio and the world press to all civilization. The only two hotels in that portion of civilization to which they returned-- Dunedin, N.Z.--were both full. A convention of wool dealers was in the city. But the men found napered tables and sheeted beds awaiting them in hospitable private houses. To wide-eyed housewives they rehearsed the first tales of their long privation, which their U. S. friends and relatives will hear in June when they land in Manhattan about June i or in Panama where the City of New York will coal in May. Their leader, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, struck this note in his first home-coming speech: "Personally I am not in the least concerned with claiming the land for America. ... I have named it Marie Byrd Land. But it is not American. It rather belongs to the world."
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