a tribunal of ex-presidents will take the matter too much
to heart. They might, however, ask themselves whether playing at politics and jour- nalism should really be taken with the deadly pomposity which traditionally surrounds the famous debating society and causes any visitor to it to marvel at the number of old young men it produces. Heaven knows, real politicians and journalists are pompous enough, and there is surely no need to encourage a precocious flower- ing of these qualities. 1 AM AT THE POLE Dash by plane into the great white silence From Noel Barber : At the South Pole, Sunday I HAVE reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for forty-five years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey. It took me eight hours to fly from McMurdo Sound base. At the Pole I found nineteen US Navy men and scientists living in huts. . . .
Ah, that great, white, American silence. . . •
PHAROS
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