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...denial of oil land lease assignments to the Roxana Petroleum Corporation. This ostensibly American company, all of whose stock is owned by a Delaware corporation, is in reality under foreign control, since a majority of the voting stock of the holding company is, in turn, owned by the Royal Dutch-Shell combine. The Roxana Company is shut out of lease-holds by the leasing law of 1920, which provides that " citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holdings...
Pointing to the menace of foreign penetration into United States oil fields, the Federal Trade Commission cites the Royal Dutch-Shell group as having acquired ownership of 11% of the world's production and 3.5% of specifically American production. The American companies named as being under foreign domination include the Union Oil Company (Delaware), the Union Oil Company (California), and the Shell Company (California). These together control over 240,950 acres of oil lands in the United States, including extensive properties in refineries, pipe lines, tank cars, and marketing equipment...
...capital ship and the United States has three, only one of these (the Maryland] is in commission; that of America's eight 30,000-ton ships, all but one (again the Maryland) are outranged by Great Britain's five "Queen Elizabeth's" and five "Royal Sovereigns"; that America's superiority in personnel would be transferred to Great Britain if 20,000 marines were not added to our total; that it is possible for the British to spend less on their navy because labor and materials are cheaper in England...
Eamon de Valera is a well educated man, holding the degree of B.A. from the Royal University of Ireland, and for some time a professor in Dublin University. He was born in New York in 1883. His mother was an Irish woman and his father a Spaniard...
...Mustapha Kemal Pasha, C. R. Das, President of the Indian National Congress, exhorted his hearers at Gaya to follow Gandhi's policy of passive resistance. " The only method by which freedom can be obtained in India," said he, " is the method of non-violent noncooperation. . . There is no royal road to freedom." Das has previously been reported on the road to violence...