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oil companies with vast inter-
national investments whom the
Eisenhower administration
banded together in the Middle
East Committee,
sabotaged the supply of crude
oil to Western Europe and in-
stead tried to grab a larger
share of the domestic. market

Emergency

Petroleum, Getty
Oil and Sinclair Oil.
Also present at the meeting
were Dulles, Herbert Hoover
Jr., oil engineer who was then
under secretary of state, Dr.
Arthur S. Fleming, then direc-
tor of defense mobilization,
and other officials of the state,
defense, justice and interior

Oil, Gulf

Sear the so-called indepen- departments.

a Dulles was about to leave for
Behind the scenes role of the London conference on the

the oil trusts in shaping U.S. Egyptian government’s nation-

foreign policy is revealed in. alization of the Suez Canal.

a memorandum signed by A.
C. Ingraham of Socony-Vac-
uum, taken from that com-
pany’s files. Socony-Vacuum
is co-owner with Standard Oil
of New Jersey, Standard Oil
of California and Texas Com-

ny of the Arabian-Ameri-
can Oil Company -(Aramco).

Aramco controls the fabulous
oil wealth of Saudi Arabia,
where the U.S. has an air base
at Dhahran, within easy bomb-
ing distance of Soviet terri-
tory.

The Ingraham memo des-
cribes a meeting on August
13, 1956 of the Foreign Pet-
roleum Supply Committee,
held at the U.S. State Depart-
ment. (Actually this commit-
tee of oil corporation repre-
sentatives had been replaced

The Ingraham memo, which
O’Mahoney presented to Con-
gress, quotes Dulles as ad-
dressing the _ secret meeting
with the oil tycoons and ex-
pressing “concern over pos-
sible loss of production in the
Arab countries, although the
main problem is the transpor-
tation through the Suez Canal
and pipelines.

He (Dulles) then stated that
he recognized the oil compan-
ies were very much interested
in the nationalization issue
and wanted to put forth his
views and what line he ex-
pected to take at the London
conference. He indicated that
the United States would not
acquiese in the rights of na-
tionalization that would af-
fect any other facilities in our
own economic interests.”

three days earlier by the ia : :
Middle East Emergency Com- The memo continued, _ still

mittee.)

In addition. to Socony-Vac-
uum, the following oil com-
panies were represented at the
meeting: Standard Oil of New
Jersey, Standard Oil of Cali-
fornia, Texas Company, Stan-
dard-Vacuum Oil, Venezuelan

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE
POINT of VIEW by
NIGEL MORGAN.

quoting Dulles:

“The line he expected to take
on the problem at the London
conference, and which was
written up in his communque
was to the effeet. that the
United States felt it was O.K.
to nationalize only if assets
were not impressed with inter-
national interest.: What he
meant by international interest
was where a foreign govern-
ment had made’ promises of
fixed duration in the form of
concessions or contracts, upon
which other nations would rely
on fixing their courses of ac-
tion and their own economies
on the basis that these certain
promises will be -fulfilled.’

O’Mahoney translated this
diplomatic gobbledygook as
follows:

“Does that mean anything
to the world except that Sec-
retary Dulles had a‘conference
with representatives of the
major oil companies and said
to them, “Our major policy in
the Middle East will be to pro-
tect your concessions’ ?”

cannot
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was

Hans Speidel despite the evidence. TOP: The H1nsard record of the charge levelled by the
.CCF in the House of Commons. BOTTOM: Speidel transferring by breeches buoy from
the U.S. destroyer Auet to the carrier Forrestal during- U.S. Sixth Fleet manoeuvres in the

Mediterranean.

Campney pleads ignorance, but
Speidel’s Nazi role on record

West German Lieut. General
Hans Speidel, newly appointed
commander of NATO land
forces in Europe, was a high
ranking Nazi staff officer dur-
ing the occupation of France.
In February, 1943, he signed
an order which sent 1,000 Jews
to the notorious Auschewitz

concentration camp, as a “se-
curity measure.”

But when H. W. Herridge
(CCF, Kootenay West) rose in
the House. of Commons last

Ralph Campney if he had
knowledge of this fact, Camp-
ney pleaded ignorance.

“But I am aware, however,
that General Speidel was ar-
rested because he was alleged
to have been a party to the
plot on the life of Hitler.”

According to authentic re-
cords, Speidel was the chief
of staff to Field Marshall Rom-
mel when the attempt on Hit-
ler’s life was made, on July
20, 1944.

month to ask Defense Minister He made no attempt to swing

MARCH 8, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 16

his army group behind the
plotters but was arrested by
the Gestapo. While the real
plotters were executed, Speidel
was merely confined to com-
fortable quarters and surrend-
ered to advancing French
troops in April, 1945.

In 1942-3, according to the
French, he was deporting and

shooting French hostages. In.

19438, according to the Russians,
he was a commander on the
eastern front and was respon-
sible for destruction and atroc-
ities in many villages.

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