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...concessions in Iran are owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in which Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, bought control for the British Government...
...Iraq, the concessions are held by the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is owned by Anglo-Iranian Oil (23¾%); the British-controlled Royal Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...
...first intention of the British government is to halt the Russians rather than to bring democracy to the lower Balkans. The British appeal to the United States for active aid in Greece is impelled by her desire for us to participate more whole-heartedly in a so-called Anglo-American bloc, and by her realization that the maintenance of the British position around the world is now too expensive for an impoverished empire to carry alone. Thus if our interests are identical with Britain's, as many insist they are, then our accession to her request is completely logical...
Amidst the rejoicing over the Douglas appointment, there was a slightly grating note in Anglo-American relations last week. In Parliament Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin charged that Harry Truman and Tom Dewey had played politics last October when they vied with each other in recommending the immediate mass admission of Jews to Palestine...
...relations with Germany far into the future. Each of the other three members of the so-called Big Four has already concluded bipartisan non-aggression pacts among themselves against the German nation, to supplement the protection under the UN charter. This series was concluded last week when an Anglo-French agreement was signed in the wake of Franco-Russian and Anglo-Russian Treaties. Mr. Byrnes has suggested that the United States also sign bilateral protection agreement against Germany, and there remains but the question of whether we shall place all our trust in the United Nations. R.M.F...