Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Secretary: Sir Archibald Sinclair, Churchill's man Friday in 1919-22 when...
...House which is normally Conservative by 210. But for two long days stubborn Neville Chamberlain clung to his office while Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity. And Labor, meeting in a Party conference at Bournemouth, knew exactly what it wanted: Churchill as Prime...
...strengthen widespread impressions that the Herzog-Sinclair deal just about smashed the boycott, Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay claimed that Sinclair properties represented 40% of all those confiscated in 1938. In reply the boycotters, led by Standard Oil of New Jersey, cracked back that 10% was a more accurate figure for the Sinclair properties. The Mexican Government, complained Standard, is now apparently getting ready to supply Sinclair with oil partly taken from the expropriated properties of Standard and others...
...took occasion to reply to a note in which Secretary Hull recently suggested that perhaps Mexico would now be willing to arbitrate her seizures of U. S.-owned oil, mining and farm lands. What Señor Hay had to say was "No!" He notified Mr. Hull of the Sinclair deal, suggested that other U. S. oilmen are at liberty to make similar deals, flatly declared that the Government of Mexico "considers arbitration incompatible, since the matter in dispute is of a domestic nature and is near solution by the authorities of Mexico...
Last week international oil became Page 1 news. Great Britain ordered her merchant ships and tankers bearing oil from the Near East to get out of the Mediterranean and stay out (see p. 30). Intransigent Mexico made a deal with big-chinned Harry Ford Sinclair (see p. 42) cracking the anti-expropriation front of the U. S. oil industry. Yet U. S. oilmen, whose troubles are their own, did not expect either of these events immediately to help or hurt them much. For Britain, which can at any time add the better part of Norway's fleet...