NO “COLD” WAR IN ANTARCTIC

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 13

NO “COLD” WAR IN ANTARCTIC

friendly relations ESTABLISHED

[From BRIAN O’NEII.B, "The Press" carrespondent with the United States Navy s Antarctic Expedition.! ABOARD U.S.S. GLACIER. McMURDO SOUND. Dec. 21. Hot words in the East-West cold ’ war have not so far been voiced in frigid Antarctica, where the United States and Russia have established outposts thousands of miles from the seats of their political direction. The Soviet base at Mirny, and the United States Navy base of McMurdo are on the best of terms, and occasionally talk to each other to exchange information on activities. The American base is in almost daily contact with Mirny for the exchange of meteorological data, and half a dozen times radio messages on matters of general interest to both camps have been exchanged. The language used is English, as the Americans have no interpreter speaking Russian. A few contacts have been made by McMurdo with the bases of other nations operating in the Antarctic, either for swapping weather information or for general conversation. The Russians were the only persons either in or out of Antarctica, apart from those in the United States, whose congratulations were received by the Navy after its successful first aircraft landing at the South Pole on October 31.