WRANGELL ISLAND.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Dr. Stefansson's article on Wrangell Island could have appeared in the Spectator ten years ago instead of last week your readers, with hardly an exception, would doubtless have favoured his proposal that " Great Britain should permanently occupy this island." But since then we have learned many lessons, and the League of Nations has come into being. If intended primarily " as a dep6t for a trans- Polar flying route," what could be more suitable than that the island should be placed under the League, thus making the route equally available for all nations, and avoiding any possible trouble with Russia, America or. Japan. And if by Dr: Stefansson's zeal and prompt action Great Britain's claim to ownership is such as would be established by an Inter- national Conference, as your note suggests, a proposal to, internationalize the island would come all the more gracefully and successfully from the Power thus in possession.—I am,
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