Lesueur
Well, Colonel, you piloted the first aircraft over the South Pole. now, has that continent down there got any strategic importance?
Balchen
It has some strategic significance. For instance, the Panama Canal should be
blocked, all vessels that couldn't go through the Panama Canal which had to go around Cape Horn. but it has not. But this high priority strategic significance, as the high Arctic, as the North Pole has? General Arnold, in his book, Global Mission, says if a third world war should come, its strategic center is the North Pole.