CONTINENT OF CO-OPERATION
Persons the world over talked of international peace and progress and of nations getting on together, but Antarctica was the only place where international co-operation took place and there was little or no talk of the subject there, said Dr William O. Davis, a United States Government agency planner, in Christchurch yesterday after returning from his first visit to Antarctica. “ ‘lf you notice a man’s nose is frozen, you’ll tell him about it. You don’t care who he is,’ was the way a man at Scott Base put it to me,” Dr Davis said.
“The problem of survival faces all the men in Antarctica, wherever they come from. I was accompanied on a 12-day tour by an Australian. We have two Russian scientists at" our bases, and they always have one or two of ours. The New Zealanders at Scott Base like our movies, and we enjoy their cooking. “All men are the same, basically, and it is pretty basic living in the Antarctic. You have to cooperate to survive, and Antarctica as a place of real international co-operation is my most significant impression.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31832, 9 November 1968, Page 1
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