IS THIS
WHEN
over
THE CHINA MAIL- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26,–, 1956.
SOUTH POLE PARTY
A BIG MISTAKE?
the lunch-time
hooters Julned chorus
Millwall Docks,
11
stocky, white-painted ship nosed its way out of herth four,
Its tough steel sides were low in the water. 1ts decks wero well loader --- with stacks of timber, with two Auster planes cocooned strange quilted jackets.
• Half a million pounds-and a hero band-go into a new bid for glory in the Antarctic. But WHY do it the hard way?
Antarctica. of edge in Atlantic
Three other ship before the There have ventured far into
Our
them-- of Shackletoni'm was groundl to ploces by the re Another, lee locked, rified helplessly
In the cousk flats Pediy opened The de hers failles
The
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Purbs.
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"And so it went rest of the night. wormning up the SIIN the engine budge."
Will the Theron free a similar The isk?
Dr Fili Sovn Tratt-Anfarctic Expedit.m ceetlest that this 1 or of the risks which must be taken,”
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The Weddell Sea is lined with towering rits of ice which m
along 1. ritin treds of miles atal
coast.
How wil the party landi }}evik bulky
pint? The part
the where hope to find a
shelf s
sufficiently low They will then build a base, anch ally. In 1957, joined by new foters from England, they will their The fed stage of begin
the Journey acTOSS
In the Pac Speetal postage
ha
AIR! the puldis bra
Fur
r
vert:saxt
completed
nbad Last Great Journey In the Wo hi
The public cutnot be blazned If 11 argards the whole project as a smooth repent per-
the Everyt formance of
addition in Antarctic terms
B-
Unfortunately i
is not
simple as all that.
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In 1952 Sir John Hunt's mem vvarmered
mountain. Fuchs is challenging a continent.
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The risks
Dr
wo
knuw
"ONSIDER what
brut the vast chili huddie of rock and ice which we call Antarctica
We know that it is as massive us Europe and Australia put to- gether.
2,000-mile
NEWT
'Sno-cats"
182
the It springs from the way in had frozen which the expedition first took
shape.
on all the They tried chamber.... refused to
But these are the inevitable dangers of exploration, it wil That is how heroes are be said.
inade.
The
Six years ago, at work on his Falkland Islands survey, Dr Fuchs found himself tent-bound by a screaming Antarctic gale.
Thinking of Shackleton, suddenly felt inspired to carry Shackleton's old alm of out crossing Antaretlen from side to side.
be
Dr Fuchs la a man of power
he
Yet are they inevitable? Amerleans
Russians and
are and personality. In the succeed- the Pole. ing years [1 ]st! striving for
persuaded America has studied
the prob-
Dominion ture
Premiers bless his iden to the extent of £88,000 He has persuaded Whitehall to throw in another £100,000, The Queen has be- come the expedition's patron.
Yet
brave
of Khost Shackleton still dominates the project. Look, for example at Dr Fuchs's attitude toward his R.A.F. crews.
By ROBERT PITMAN
Jems of snow transport more Intensely than any other Power, Russia has scored the Arctic triumphs of the present age. Yet they are both relying pre- eminently on air-power to sub- the Antarctic. And they both using
of Lovey
Felicopters,
FT will be a weird procession.
special duo There will be the
oddly are tracked vehicles, the shaped Sno-ents, each weighlig 3 tons, a praying manis in steel. There will be beans
from huskies,
brought sone Eskimo thousands of miles away world. at the top-side of the
explorers, will be the their faces covered in ghoulish black snow-masks.
not
ม
the
refuse to le! Why does he them probe the unknown Antarctic far beyond the reach of his ground teams? "Because If they crashed there would be Do way of rescuing these inen.'
Just 'helps
question
transport-a of land matter which assumes key im- portance in a journey of 2,000 mdies over uncharted wastes. Dr Fuchs has relied on the expect tion's own chosen engineer, Mr David Pratt.
Like sovera)
other members
Before sailing... Dr Vivian Fuchs, expedition leader, supervising last- minute sailing preparations board Theron.
A Mousy Miss Is Now Every Uncle's Favourite Niece
B
By C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS
Y now it is as redun- joon as she sees you look back dant in conversation to the shrewd appraisal of her staro turns into something Call Miss Anna Massey utterly melting. It is dreadfully an actress as it is Frank effective.
Tyson a cricketer, or Lester On he stage she projects her- Piggott a jockey. Everyone self still further. She becomes knows the Reluctant De- every uncle's favourite niece.
stage sho turns herself out butante. Like Byron, she, with suitable elegence, Her awoke one morning to find clothes are pretty, as an 18-year- herself famous.
old's should be, but she does not
11 go hippens that this was overdo it.
She lives in Highgate Village to have been the very time on with her mother and step- which Miss Massey storied
father (he William Dwight career in the theatre. She was Whitney, a lawyer with
pric-
her
expecting a very humble Job.
both Now York and found her for her parents sake. ice in
London, an American born and (Her father
Raymond bred who fought 19
in the Scots Massey; her mother Adrianne Guards).
apent their
Allen; both
Sho knew
have
in the theatre.)
ษ
first Job
would be tough. She expected It is a pretty, semi-detached to be act sweeping the stage William and Mary house and scrubbing floors. She had lives in. The Whineys are great no illusions
and their
the
big party givers, Now she is the Find of the garden
must take lot of "If they do get through with
Year, a Star. "Oh, but I'm not
punishment 171
Lummer them? It would be magnificent,
Д stor," she says in protest. months. certainly-but in this age of Just a hucky beginning....
got backwards and for- She flight it would be
rather ke Perhaps so, but she has become words to the theatre in a Morris repeating Hannibal's Journey part of the London scenes Her Minor, that her step-father gave across the Alps with elephants.
fimilar face stores perky at her on her London first night. Helicopters? I should have
business On the
of being a ts out of all the newspapers thought they were essential.
her charming celebrity: "Fascinating. I love and magazines;
of the expedition, 31-year-old After all, even Scott took a man.
carrying balloon with himn,”
an
Mr Pratt la
explorer of authentic pattern: "If things got really tough," he says, "we may have to eat surviving dogs urselves. That is where dog transport hos Lie advantage
His verdict
over motors. You can" cat WHAT is Mr Petter's verdict
petrol."
But what do other engineers think abrut Mr Pratt's plans?
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"Too
he
the expedition? much brave
Kuesswork," says, "Hoo much of the Rider Haggard touch.”
The Rider Haggard touch? I have consulted Mr Kenneth Potter, brother of the man who In Britain it will always be wel- But unlike Haggard's designed the Canberra bomber. comed
Dr Fuchs
Is taking Kenneth Petter, a former Supply heroes, Ministry expert and one of our (it his appeal for extra funds with few authorities on snow trans succeeds) nearly had a million
ΠΟΣ be
Dr Fuchs admittedly is taking his two Austers (later one will be replaced by Canadian
TT shows that be regards them But he makes it clear "Otter).
mare as useful hired heips-u that they will do nothing more
airburne Sherpas rather than than help out the work of the
as explorers in their own right, men on the
ground-they will
He has gathered a cluster of port, comments: "Even if there pounder of pubile money make surveys of the un-
musi he And upwards hlm. slope continuous notable men to advise him, from is a Weddet Sca to the surprised if the publle decides
Portsmouth Over what kind of land will known Antaretle on their own
the Bishop of
to from the disturbing
Aut he has rejected Lccount. ' 's
goology Pole, movement with Sno-cats to make this demand: -- they pass?
Most of the 900 miles the use of helicopters altogether. Professor Read, the
"Must we always fall back on may still be very perilous. But question.
expert. But among this
barrier heroles? Must we always do it which separate the Weddell Sea
Wh exp.uins this extra liter of advisers there is not if there is a mountain from the Pole has never been
je mothod"
the think they will fall altogether. the hard way?" now ordinary difference
authority single seen by man. For all we know it may be blocked by mountain
"We hope there
may
barrier. We know that its temperature be only a few isolated praks, for any month of the year ruely says Mr David Stratten, the de- edge above the freezing point pety jender. "But If we find of water, that is white deserts anything which we can't climb are scoured continually by wlads with Sno-cats we will simply ko which reach over 100 miles on
And
I toot we know deal more abeat the few hun- dred squat
mules which Bive
been charted by man.
But about the frat great Concise at
bathe the we know.
Around It."
share this 1 Batient
The Sno-cats won't optimisin tackle a gradient much steaper
one-in-four, This then of
detours are made,
there
for verla.11 We do not even know whether
all
1 IN
contineri
merely a group of bilands locked together by eternal ice
Dr Firdis and his perly plan fu enter thraigh the Weddell the end sea which a huge bay out of the
Sca hites
Colds
Whatever
they could hardly cross a mountain range. Take a Press report on one of
under test the Sno-eats dilluns:
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after u
Con-
while, mes, arongly but leas and less as the battery Wrakoari Ft WIL
a petrol feed satin blocking
Even the slightest cold is to be te orod Do not let it spread? Defeat it from the start by taking 1 or 2 'CAFASPINS"
CAFASPIN
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N the shifting political
the sands of
Mickle East. dictators and rulers are made easily and they fade just s easily into the dust, leaving no trace,
By
POKER
AND
LES ARMOUR
WITH TANKS
self,
Anna and her father, Raymond Massey.
modestly self-assured, meeting people in general. How may usually be seen on those else can you learn about people occasions when celebrities for and widen your range as an gather. Recently she had the actres? 1 rather enjoyed being I love reporters." unusual honour to be plected interviewed,
minos);
Miss Cheese.
How does
her? Well
stardom
become
(Cunning
Her
Her next
"I really don't know. The play may run for
It is huminating to look at ages. After that it depends on photographs of her Before and what offers I get. You must do
grammes of economic develop- After. Before she is a typically as much as you can at my age.
miss of the well-to-do 1 may go into rep. ment and social reform which mousy
What they unkindly "I've had terrifle luck. I do are not very different from la classes.
Pont Street. Too little realise. I must try to make own, in favour of a return to call
chim, a mouth a bit too wide, a myself versatile. It's far too mediaeval despotism.
too broad, early at 18 to specialise. 1 not really quite largo to do flims, television, the lot.
Altogether wiher
lessons, singing, dancing, voice production, every
I'm morning.
at half-past cight and out of the house by
His deals with the Russians bit too thin, nose he regards as logical: they notσyes only strengthen his own miu- enough.
The soldier-politician is as old as civilised history. And history shows that most of thom have over- reached themselves sooner or later with disastrous results.
ry post.on but they weakto negative. Has Egypt's Colonel Nasser reached this point? Has he over-rated the cards he holds?
time when he would rather have been fighting the British
and Farouk.
Yot Gamel Abdul Nasser, the young lieutenant-colonel who appeared suddenly from nowhere, manoeuvred him- |self into supreme power, andd In 1935, at 17, he had marched streets of Calro stayed to bafle diplonuts through the around the world, may be of with students who rloted and raged in their demands for con- a hardier breed.
stitutional reform. Even before that he had joined students who lobbying politicians in an effort to get them to unite fur Revpl's total independence.
These same students became brothers in arms, and neither They
Nasser
forgot their youthful aims. Nasser, perhaps,
farther and deeper than most of them.
He sits in Calro playing 1 toured Egypt shrewd poker hand with Jet planes and the latest tanks as
the chips, the great Powers world us his cards, and the strategic and economic riches of the Middle East as the prize.
It is a brave game for a man of 37 whose practical experience of politics goes back Just three years.
Colonel Nasser 13 single- minded, determined, intense and fearless.
лог
ever
BOW
Two Revolutions
was a seco
the strength of the West in the Middle East.
Ho condently belleves that
go
up
want
One can imagine her mother ten. go to matinees whenever nent I can. I don't have time for ticking off her points:
Besides, you
forgot that there
He thought that he can hold both East and West | figure, nice hands, good legs and much social 1Mc.
revolution. honest government by the army was enough. He forgot that he must have a social polley, - that he must turn the state in some direction or other.
matter of history.
at bay.
The Army
It doesn't seem to have oc- curred to him that the com-
an
an
per-
ankies, rather lovely akin. don't really get jobs sitting
nose to
very un-
But hair, such an awkward red, about the ivy.
"I'm afraid I'm a neither flaming nor suburn nur
And the gold
eyes a pretty sporty person. I hate games. It I have nothing better to do, l'a colour, a really lovely colour.
rother
listen to gramoptione bigger. wish they were a bit There is probably some truth
Now After. In an astounding records. the charge. Though the
deficiencies. From being ruthlessness with which Nasser missors have been at the game way she has made advantages of
"I always take my mother's and Major Salem exploited the far longer than he has, or that her
advice About the theatre, ancient cranities
between his power in Egypt still rests rather an ordinary-looking girl
army which can be she has become the epitome of Clothes: I ask her advice, but I Egyptian politicians to streng- o
don't always take 11. Actually Judiciously lip-sticked, her then their own hands and leave twisted any day by any polla national type. Nagulb redundant
#lelan just slightly more remains
mouth has been made shorter we have much the same views.
"Clothes are personal, but the suasive than he is.
and fuller into an absurd little stage is a really serious business. Major Salem the "dancing
If he lasts long enough he beak, which perfectly comple. I'd always do what my mother major is the popular culprit, may be able to build a social ments her lack of chin and advises. After all, she's spent a and it may well be that Nussur and an economic order which leads one past the unfortunate fettine in the theatre.
the eyes.
to "I definitely want wus motivated principally by will prove a sound foundation
The eyes!
A little high ideals and that Nagulb for his power. But he is channel
Shakespeare. Oh, Juliet's a big ond black ling all his available resources really did stand in the way,
pencil have
You start with Jump
ahead.
like carrying It will be many years before into guns instead of farms and formed them into two enormous something He andles easily, talks quickly,
anyone can sort out the tangle factories. And the gung me in deep pools of dark brown velvet.
the moves briskly. He exudes ner-
hands of army officers who She has a hobil of resting her stories,
So, no doubt, you do. "But of accusations, "inside" But he leaves no earliest dawn of human civilim-
have political chin in her hands and staring when Anna Massey starte doubt that he knows precisely tion to the latest shot fired in
wager they'll constitutes the available In ambitions as strong us those of ot you over what would be (If Shakespeare, I is going and how to Cairo as well as he knew the where he
she wore them) spectacles. As give her more than sword. names of the men in his platoon. formation on the machinations Gamal Abdul Nasser. get there.
The narrowness of his back. He knew that human civilisation of Egypt's military rulers, ground and the breadth of his first flowered in the valley of
the Nile,
Important, dreams are probably the clues to his success end to his be- he knew that every one of the
long succession of conquerors-- the ancient Assyrians, Alexander was almost the Great, the Romans, Napo entirely in the hands of the leon, tho Turks-had Anally army. Military service was the folded their tenta while the be
vous energy.
haviour,
His
education
The Fighting
For
Egyptlun
onc thing. he knew
ilstory from
the
but, more
Egyptians went on."
So long as the Nile continued
and malicious · rumours
tribution
which are
of
What is certain is that Naseer formulated a programme
for land
reform, slate ald economic development, redis
wealth,
and of educational reform for which he fought for a time
with out the programme
What is equally certain
ment,
Stop At Nothing
met
to apt
shadow trans
sword."
MEN-HOT TOPIC IN A PARIS POWDER ROOM
BY
Jean Macaulay
do
or
Ho recalls: "We were fighting guard to lead the 23 when the 4 will be powerful- enough droppers, the reader's ears, wisdom"
only career he had known until the fateful Juny
23. 1952. when Cairo roared with fire and General Nagulb rode to power, to flow he could confidently with opposition which might have led to another revolution But his dreams went back expect the Egyptians to thrive.
For another, as his recollec, but for a strong hand in gover-
•HEN_Vyyyan_Hol- handled with complete lack "Men" is a sophisticated book farther than that.
land translated of false modesty. flons reveal, he gradually came
with mo. "editing,) fio. name- to realise that more than forco
characters, no introduction | from the French
"Men", is a dialogue between conclusion. It starts off, "He's to svas required if Egypt were have
Men" by Allegra Sander, two women. It spares neither got a mistress, so I'm going to genuine Independence.
one of the sexos, The αλάστ *Sometimes, na he admits, he
The took the Inquisitive woman is a realist who could
take a lover!! the day -He served in Palestine during forget it In
Just
Nasser, however, also had reader eavesdropping in the be described as a cynic turtil
From that point on the two the fighting out of which the before July 23, 1952, he says, state of Israel emerged, and he had imagined that the whole and has a foreign poller walls powder room of the Ritz one remembers that a cynic has women debate, the older
stems from purely nationalist
been defined as a person who distributing worldly wisdom, took part in the truce negotia nation was ready and prepared, deals, He still
dreams of a Hotel in Paris.
knows the price of an article, the younger one, asking the right watting for nothing but the van Malom brotherhood in which
but never the value of it. This questions to release her friend's tions.
charge...."
And as with all eaves woman, scattering her pearls of shrewd coumaal and affective will take the lead and But, after July in Palestine, but our dreams
before the perplexed Ironor.. were contred in Egypt."
army had taken over, when
Karp! what it how not
Alexander the burn as truths, home and young wife, is well aware
value. price and And a young, Jowish officer, Farouk had Yoruben Cohen, who met him Genormt No, when andling to make)
was struggling beeld pover foreign, drop from the lips Of Love the speaks at many realism of the smart French during the rubo talks, wrote: the country to chock, the old He was prepared to stop at of two highly cultivated points-Love with capitol woman, a realism that account
“At for much of her success.- Men The 'subject which in
nothing to get the British cut French women. The one is and love with a small always talked about with me convictions returned. Every people.on
eople on earth," he of Bucs, and the affects experienced in the com- one turn she words her state will sluft uncomfortably in their read. It women was the struggle")
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through two work had on world Necurity [hgainst the Englig: of Isruel motort
ever a woman's nastire, isn't should learn the pocTot resistance revolution
marriage; the others love the chief of her worries? trumpe in their hands, organised "
ki', his ""'prem- prepared to stop young and ignorant. The And with men, lan't Hamerely a wwwere able to muster world right to govem itself off and
kinimo, damlogtoy three times. public opinion behind us in
Talking of wives, ane tells her to letter "states that he has Istruggle against them."you vir social revolution involving the nothing to drive the Frerich out subject is an intimate one means "of" forgetting theirs?". Anham Gréunauté va
condict of the class. 1200 of North Africa whatever that
Peland, in dost men soms come to To get the most, drom 16:1) ahali Kommer went to Palestine General Naguiby, in Navara may mean by ferme of lives, and
"Cresszt" conf200
a' the inriines of postmarion, doulken have a
dozen times, k titberly, tregretting the aged view; tollerede und vermtually whether or not lignende, the necu trick.chachling the Jawa at had to be repliced because, he delayedan of the festen deus,
and how we
which
...
of
THE PROS IR la debäto that, reveals tite
{movement in Palestine, and how volution ' în, à' political - ke... meant ; nothing whatever to plexities of love and mont with the question," "What bents as they CAN FOODTA the
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