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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1948.
STANDARD OIL WAR SCANDAL
Advised To Be
Be "Pro-Japanese Interests Of Business
Caltex Had To Be
"Pro-British"
Washington, Jan. 24: The Senate War Investigating Committee today
disclosed that the Standard Oil Company of ' California was advised in 1940 by an official of two foreign subsidiaries to be “pro-Japanese” in order to maintain the "very large business” with Japan.
The disclosure came as the committee questioned Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the In- terior and wartime Petroleum Administrator.
17
Magnesium Deposits
Shanghal, Jan, 25. Large deposits of magnesium, #sential to war industries, have been discovered by prospectors of about 140 kilometres east Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi Province, at district called Lopit Deping, according official organ.
An estimate of the Kiangri Geological Research, Institute pur: the total magnesium ores of various kinds at 3,000,000 metric tums. Reuter.
In 1940 In CENTRAL { & BLOOMBER
Argentine "Claim" To Falklands
Buenos Aires, Jan. 23. The Argentine Government announced today that a group of army specialists would short-
Antarctic ly go to the cruise with two vessels of the Argentine Navy.
*********** from. Britain
Ickes described as "shocking" the conduct of MOUNT BATTEN
a wartime State Department official who was the director in the Standard of California. Icken said that letters by Max is no longer connected with Stan- W. Thornburg, special assistant to ard on California,
the Under-Secretary of State from Company's Interests
1941 to 1943, "corroborate certain
| suspicions" that Thornburg "was
Lof
Brewstor also placed in record
TO RELINQUISH
HIS POST
NEW DELHI, JAN. 24.
MOUNTBATTEN
on i
The Argentine Government is at present studying two notca
the on
action Argentina has taken in what the Argentine Foreign Minister has called "the Antarctic sector of Argentina, over which Britain maintaina aspirations.”
A British Foreign Offler apokesman remarked this week that Britain hos protested sharply against the erection of not working for the government" a letter in which Thornburg wrote
an Argentine base on Conception but was more interested in the oil to Regenal Stoner, Vice-President. EARL |company.
Standard of California WILL DEFINITELY RELIN- Island, in the Falkland Island about State Department activities QUISH HIS APPOINTMENT Dependencies. in lend-desso to Saudi-Arabia.
AS GOVERNOR GENERAL The Argentine reply is ex- Brewster sald that Ickes agreed
next week probably on that the letter indicated that OF INDIA IN JUNE, IT WAS pected Thornburg was looking after his AUTHORITATIVELY LEARN- Monday,
FROM company's interests while serving
The rejection of the British GOVERNMENT in the government
HOUSE HERE TODAY.
notes has been advocated in the Brenoя Aires press and the
ED
Chairman Owen Brewster (Ro publican, Maine) also read a letter in which James A. Moffett, Presi- dent of two subsidiaries of the Standard in California, wrote to the President of the California company, H. D. Galller, that "you must take as strong a pro-Japanese Ickes asid ho thought that It has been unofficially sug stand as possible maintain Thornburg's interest "was to pro-gested that his next job will newspaper "La Prenan" said: business with Japan,
teet the interests of big companies" be to supervise the winding up "The Falklands are ours; there The Jetter was dated August 13, and added:
British mandate. in can be no question, no dispate, 1940. Moffett was then the Board "I think that has something to of the
and no bargaining."-Reuter. Chairman of the Bahrein Petro do with severing the relations be- Palestine. leum Company, American-owned tween Thornburg and the State refining concern in the Persian Department."-United Press. Gulf, and the Caltex Oll Com- Sen Brewer also charged the od distributing agency jointly owned company "planted" a $17,000 a year by the Texas Company and the director in the State Dept. in 1941 Standard of California,
to influence the Government's policy Chief of Naval Forces in the
"Pro-English"
•
on Arabian pil
Brewster
nf guilty
Moffett wrote to Collier that "we, Caltex, are pro-English from
Was
have
from Recent press reports London speculated that Earl Mountbatten might br ap- pointed Supreme Commander,
Asin, South-East
Supreme
Jewish Refugees In India
said
Enst, Commander of East Afri Thornburg
bases, "na "The mam reprehensible can
A bulwark the standpoint of war. Moffett conduct" by working for Irm-lense against the Soviet Union," Gov. advised Collier that although the aid to. Sault Arah so his company ernor-General of South Africa, Standard of California should be could obtain oil rights,
or Ambassador to the United pro-Japanese, "Caltex must really' Both Brewster and Ickes agreed States. be anti-Japanese because we have that Thornburg appeared to
Much of this conjecture over-
New York, Jan. 24. large business In China and our put his business interests ahead of
About son Jewish refugees, who looks the fact that Earl Mount- main business is in the British those of the Government, Empire, which must be "anti- The committee is looking into batten's own publicly expressed persecution in Afghanistan and Japaness at this time."
charge
that the Government twice ed wish is to get back to the who have been living in India on Moffett headed the
until the end of April. Dr. Federal rejected chances to get Arabian ail Royal Navy, in which he holds temporary visas, will be permitted to Husing Administration during at ligtely above cost price if Saudi the substantive rank of Rear- Robert Marcus, acting political direc one period in the early days of Arsiia were given lend-lease-aid. | Admiral.
tor of the World Jewish Congress, the Roosevelt administration. He and later signed enntracts to buy oil! There has been no official said yesterday.
fat more than double the original of hint who will be his successor
fer.
irkes said he had nothing to do with it because "it was Д purely
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These lewe were to have been fe as Governor-General, but it is ported by the Indian Government but tuken almost for granted that an extension was granted after an military transaction" over which hit he will be an Indian. Reuter. appeal by the Jewish Congress an Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indinn Petroleum Administration had no
Prime
Minister. control.
Same of the refuger jews had al- ready left India for Palestine with cecilement
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Higher Price
The contract for oil at the higher price 125 signed by the Navy. Brewster said the Navy paid $1.05 al barrel while the British were buying
it
11
50.40
few hundred miles away for
Charles Evan Hughes Jr.,
Arabian torney for the
at-
Hirohito Message 'Ridiculous'
Tokyo, Jan. 24. Ainerican The newspaper "Jiji Shimpo" Oil Ca. which sold the oil, denied today quoted Socialist Vice-Pre- Brewster's suggestion that the firr sident of the House of Counellers had. received "generous and solicius describing Emperor Hiruhito's tous treatment" from the Govern thessage to the Diet on Jan. 21 ment-United Fres
as very ridiculous,"
SALT ON THE WOUND
Last week Chinese slaged
Yan Dyke-bearded Jiichiro Matsumoto, who wears no collar because he considers it a "super- nuous custom," belongs to the Et class which Japanese gener ally for centuries considered so- clal outcasts,
The newspaper quoted him as Shanghai, Jan. 25.
con- of 10,000 saying that under the new a mob
stitution the Emperor's
power all
anti-British purade in Shanghai, during was merely of a ceremonial ne- which hundreds of abusive slo-ture but that in his Diet message gans and caricatures were pasted the Emperor went into political
discussion." or painted with tar into impos-
Hirohito called upon the Jap- Ing bank and commercial bulldanese to co-operate to surmount ings along the famed Bund. the critical economic situation.-
British property owners, stili United Press. smarting from the hostile demon-
stration, got the following notice main entrance. Please have them from the Police Department's No. washed away ог chipped off 1 sub-station:
promptly in order to preserve the "There are still a lot of slogans neatness of the city-Associated written with oil and ink at your Press.
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