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WHY THE MEN WERE ON THE ICE-CAP... They are part of
a challenge that is changing the world
(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
T
اهد
HE rescuo of 12 gateway into the American
fllers from an ice- continent.
cap in Northern It les athwart the routes Greenland poses along which Russia, if war three questione in millions came, could spring long- of wondering minds.
range bombers across the North Pole to attempt the
Why did these fliers, 11 quickest possible knock-out of them British, ever go there?
From what fantastic new
to Canada and the U.S.
Thule is designed to anti-
town in that frozen world cipate-to parry-such a
blow. did the rescuers come?
What is happening along this icy roof of the world. where even Eskimos used to
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Interceptor jets of the Air Force already patrol the skies over Thule. six hangars will house the world's biggest
atom
The rescue raises a little bombers which will take off of the curtain over a vast from two-mile runways to polar plan that may change strike at any target within the face of the world-in their 10,000-mile range. war or peace.
By Transarctic flight from
Much more of the curtain Thule Russian cities are in is lifted by the United reach; Vladivostok is only States revelation that a vast 4,115 miles, Omsk 3,199, £94,000,000 air base has Moscow a mere 2,752. just been completed at
Planes based at Thule are Thule, in Greenland 980 within 2,000 miles of Russia's miles from the North Pole, "safety zone" Industries beyond 2,400 miles from New York, the Urals. and 480 miles west of the ice-cup where the 12 fliers were marooned.
men
Twenty thousand working at incredible speed built Thule, on an ice plateau, in 18 months.
It
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EVER-ALERT
THULE is already a township,
the
IN STRATEGY-Britain is no longer
the lone 'aircraft carrier'
quter northern chain of American leads because she suddenly be defence.
came aware of the mossing of Russian strength poised, perttaps, to strike through the Arctic and Alaska
eltics nt American and plants.
mony
TO SAN
IN COMMERCE it brings the far-flung nations many hours closer
from Thule in the Franz Josel Land group of Islands.
to
the
It was after dropping supplies
this expedition that R.A.F. Hastings, with 12 aboard, crash-landed on the ice-cop 'not far from the company rela
The British expedition began
In June she was reported to Colossal difficulties were over- coma. A port to accommodate
be moving up two wings 11,000-ton ships was built at the
TU4 long-rande bombers-the equivalent of the Super-fortress mouth of a flord so that supplies can be unloaded during the three Thule is supported by eight to Kamchatken, facing Alaska as a modest venture, it was sald,
across the narrow Bering Strail. by a group months the seu is not frozen, aretle alr stripa and
of young paval officers, Thousands of tons of equipment weather stations,: New naviga-
And what is Britain doing? An was air-lifted nom-stop by 15 tional instruments are defeating TAF detachment operates. But it is supported by the Air
Magnetic Pole, Thule's most northerly ever heavy transports arriving every the of 5,000 live in heated aluminium
nearest neighbour, which con- from Thule. The fights carried Ministry and the Navy, and ite known. Its permanent population day.
out by the R.A.F. Lincoln Arles discoveries will be studied by To induce workmen to toll in founds ordinary compasses,
laid the foundations of modern the planners of British · and huts, futuristically designed like a temperature that shivers down
Arctic navigation in the air. American defence against· Arctic "inside-out refrigerators." It has to 30 below wages of £4,000 to
attack. clubs, canteens, cinemas, billards £6,000 a year were paid.
More significant, perhaps, ta saloons. Cars
MAGNETIC storms and the the British North Greenland ice roads, and traffic is directed Six foot excavations
Northern Expedition of 20 men-now scooped out of the flint-hard
Lights that play tricks with established in furthest earth before rock and gravel radio waves are being mastered. land of Britannia Lake. could be laid for the runway.
Britain and Russia pioneered Russia is believed to have It is 450 miles east of Thule ever-alert strategle base in the in polar flying, but now America Aretic air Bases 1,500 miles in wasteland even more perilous,
speed along ita
over cloverleaf loops like those to be seen outside any major city In the United States.
But, above all, Thalo is an
were
SIGNIFICANT
Mmulti-coloured
Green-
THESE NEW WORDS FAIL
TO WARM THE HEART
DVANCE
orders of
nearly 800,000 copies A keen student ext
have been made for a
new book.
Printers in London und
New York are rushing out
a total order of 950,000 copies. What is this that
*
of the Scriptures
discusses
PATHFINDERS
THREE of its members have dug-in only 800 miles from
the Pale to spend winter in "ihe loneliest station in the world."
་༥
These three will be able to tell the planners how man
and equipment can best stand up to the perpetual, biting blizzarda and the inhuman temperatures.
But the knowledge that is wan out here may not be only for destructive use.
The world's air lines have long boon looking to polar flight to shorten, distances between for
No doubt this 13 @ more love, 1 am a noisy gong, or a fure nations.
translation of the clanging cymbal"? prophet's words, but is it a
Two airliners built for Scandi- more exact rendering of his Changes like that neither navian Airways will leave Los meaning? Dry, arid pedantry improve the lingunge nor Angeles for Oslo by way of
sparkling make the meaning more clear. Thule in November. replaces the joyous,
heart And, surely, flow which makes the
the Queen of
at its very sound.
revision
makes such a publishing new sensation? It could be only of the Bible
one book-The Book, the Bible.
Testament
I'
Sheba came to test Solomon's They will be pathfinders for a wisdom "with a very great regular polar flight between Turn .on, to the New company, and camels that bare Scandinavia and the west coast.
ond the story spices, and gold in abundance, of U.S.A, which will cut ten of the Prodigul San in St. and precious stones." Rather hours off the route through New Luke's Gospel. Here iguin is n than "having o retinue and York. message to which a faltering, camela bearing spices and very stumbling humanity has looked muciz gold and precious stones. and has found compassion. Authorised, or King James's There was the Prodigal's Be But this time it is the Version.
gradation in simple, unforget- Bible brought up to date-
table, unforgotten words:-- not with, the jargon of the. Theirs is the scholar's
"And "he' would fain have twentieth century but by approach. Poetry must led his belly with the husks the research of the give way before a clinical that the swine did eat; and no twentieth century. It em- accurney. In this process man gave unto him." bodies the knowledge gained something is gained, but from more than 4,500 an- long-loved phrases are lost. cient Greek and other
For me the Book of Isaiah manuscripts discovered in has always seemed to em- the last 70 years.
body the fundamentals of our faith. There, in crystal cadences, the story of
Vivid contrasts
Not clearer
sjon
monument
to
Soon polar air passengers may find travel smoother than acroŞS the Atlantic.
TIME CLIPPED Beauty, power
BRITISH OVERSEAS Aleways wish to ay to Tokyo, Aus- NAM one do justice to this vast tralia, and New Zealand across CA
work of research and a Transaretle highway. London scholarship in few contrasting will be brought 1,644 miles quotations? Clearly not. Nor
nearer Tokyo, saving ten hours. can poetry be rendered in a chemical formula, For the Even these routes could be Does not the picture become great message of the Bible a further clipped if Russia allowed blurred, blotting out the mas something which must stir the foreign commercial planes over ter touches when presented heart as well. as the
brain.her territory. thus: "And he would gladly Faith depends not upon reason. swine ate; and no one gave him have fed on the pods that the alone. anything"?
The Revised Standard Ver-
Д is
Maybe they will halt at an man's industry in the quest for hotel not far from the Fole truth and knowledge. The probably at Thule itself, THIS scholar's treasure Christendom is foretold. on years there have been mind acknowledges its impor
house edition of the Remember?:
tance, but it warms the beart all is one
Making polar flights safe for "Every valley dering "Faith anti hope
those who favoured the ren-
of the reasons for Bible, officially known as shall be exalted,
and not at all,
Thule. And for the work of the every love for that wonderful pas "The Revised Standard Ver- mountain and hill, shall bo sage in St. Paure Epistle to
O the King James's Version Britons who will be testing the sion of the Holy Bible," made low; and the crooked the Corinthians. Indeed, it 18 Macaulay wrote that it was a limits of human endurence in book which, 11. everything else high Greenland during the next (Nelson, 80s.), is the pro- shall be made straight, and true that "charity" has lost its
old seventeenth century, sign would alone suffice to
In our fanguage should perish, two years. duct of painstaking Amerl- the rough places plain,”
Acance in secular lifa...but the whole extent of its beauty show can research.
Those words were read over has not "love" suffered, a like and power."
*Thule is the Griek and Roman the radio at the time of Dun- fate? 2.
name for the most northerly land Do not Look for kirk. On
that warn June
For 350 years the words of in the world. Pytheas (d. 100 8.C.), Americanisms from
Dean evening they came as a prayer tongues of men and of angels,, been the words of our thanks habited, but com gra
"Though I. speak with the the Authorised Version have days sail from, Britain; was in
le said to have reached it after s Luther A. Weiglo, of Yale and a message of hope."
and have not charity, 1 arti Divinity School, and his Now consider the new ver- become as sounding brass, or a giving and of our comfort. maringly and ripened ill, in sum- have gladdened the child's mar: the nights were long and colleagues, who worked for sion: "Every valley shall be tinkling cymbal.":"
bodal improved demned man's cell. For they have, billaves. Le sons the Shatunde, 16 years on this version. lifted up and every mountain Is this in any way
Iceland, or part of the Norwegian Look, instead, for vivid, and had town teen wed by being translated: are charged not only will the conse, ultima Thule a phrere
ground shall become level, and speak with the tongues of men meaning but with the spirit of commonly used startling contrasts with the the rough places a plalà.”
and of angels, but have. not our falih.
·JOHNNY HAZARD
MOVE OUT, PARADISE!
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