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"Do you suppose all these applications to build extensions on our public housts have anything to do with Mr. Churchill's suggestion to recall the Home Guard?"
London Express Service
THE ROYAL NAVY
FALLS
★ IS THE AMERICAN, MONOPOLY OF NAVAL COMMANDS A CASE OF POWER POLITICS, OF. ECONO- MICS, OR MERELY OF BROTHERLY JEALOUSY .. ASKS ANGUS SHAW.
H
the
13 C-in-C Eastern AS. the British Navy' capacity
Will
command been "sold
down Aliantle,
ares affecting Britain. Even The C-in-C Portsmouth (Ad- America they miral Sir Arthur Power) has as C-in-C. been designated
the river"?
in
are asking that question. Home Station, with sole com- What they are saying at mand of all naval operations in Devonport, Plymouth, British home waters. Portsmouth and Portland can hardly be expressed in King's English.
There are certain lower deck terms which have no Churchil- lian equivalent,
In
Med.
And on top of all that the How is American dominance explained?
Bluntly it can be described power politics applied to naval strategy,
as
U.S. Admiral Forrest Sher- it all up: "Where take a responsibility-u responsibility there
the naval barracks criti- man sums elsm of American monopoly of we naval commands in
the new major
defensive set-up is pumped out must be authority commensurate Ilke bilge water sour and with it."
cloudy.
Accent has been transferred
from rum to gum, chum,
Outnumbered
ASTERN
scamanship,
emcioncy
and fighting valour of no account?
Let no one forget we are a nation of acemen; America is
not.
Quite apart from the Med., is there any justification for a of the Supreme Commander Atlantic?
Admiral of the Fleat Vis- Cunningham-described count
as the greatest fighting seaman not. So, since Nelson-thinks too, do Admiral Tovey, an ex- Commander of the Home Fleet, and Aa
Admiral Lord Cork and
Оттег
Without disparagement of the American effort in the last war, we would do well to remember that
hold the We
Atlantic against the surface and under- water forces of Nazi Germany; escorted millions of tons of shipping safely to port, swept a passage to Murmansk with supplies against incredible odds.
Admiral Robert B. CA Carney, USN, named
Arbitrary assumption of the THERE can be no doubt that we-C-in-C-Allied. command of Atlantic Pact forces are sadly outnumbered both
in the Mediterranean is the lost in men and ships in the Med. Amerien But does that equip
straw.
The Med., recently described for the responsibilities of com- and by an American politician as
an area long regarded by his country as a "British lake," is
a command that has figured gloriously for centuries In Bri- tish naval history.
DMIRAL of the Fleet
Vis-
A Dinner. Acount Cunningham, has cent book, "A Sailor's Odyssey" recalls a dinner given in Ad- miralty House, Malta, after the Med. had been swept clean by Our fleet.
were
mand?
Britain's
weakness in
Forces,
Southern Europe.
and
Grave Blunder
Peace Or War- Oil Is Power
0 But
ments
By Denis Weaver
IL is in the news today. Aflar some bitter duels the whore Govern wo companies united to form now. negotiate, the Royal Dutch Shell trust in wealthy combines used to 1902, Rothschlids in Paris pro- dictate or fight over-its viding one-third of the shore
capital. flow. Those were the days when millions were spent in oil wars.
It was for oil that Hit- ler's armies battered their
The "war" with Standard Oil then became A ding-dong alruggle tasting on and off for years,
Anti-trust agitation at home claimed Rockefeller's at-
tention and there was a truce, the first of many, on a basis of live and let live in the Astatio
way to the gates of Stalin grad. Thirst for oil drove the Japanese to the East Indies and the Nazly to market.
Rumania.
It was all piped across the English Channel In
PLUTO
(Pipeline Under The Ocean),
which supplied Eisenhower's Next Deterding founded sub- tanks and planes with, the life-zidiary companies in the United
States, blood of victory
bought felds in
Last
And peace-time's needs are to- Western America, obtained con- day even greater than those of trol of rnuch of Mexico'# 1943, or before the war.
production and developed output year's total output was 540 million
metrie
in Central America, Venezuela tons-nearly
(now the second largest pro- that of 1938, which was just over 280 million. The world ducing country) and Trinidad. drinks it all.
The days of vast private for- lunes made at- most overwright, of colossally trusts wealthy rainously under- culting cach ather for mar- kets, are largely past
Like the con- fumed grabbing for profits "off the cuff" which drove the early drillers and pro- motors to waste- ful over-produc-
llan until Rockoc- teller
seized control and rationalised the market.
to
OIL CRISIS
IN PERSIA
AB
** Wa'il kayo to find some sub- stitute to pour on troubled
waters
Jockeying for spheres of oil Interest has given place sane and order- ly competition. even a measure of co-operation.
-Briefly, oll supply and distri- bution are controlled by United
British
Dutch States, Interests on the one hand, ond by the Soviet Union on olher,
and
the
Oilfields in North and South America, the Middle and Far East and the Caribbean, supply the western world. The re-
AN America—which has never run a mercantile marine of any size successfully-take mainder (output about eight per- over the responsibility of concent, of the total) e inside the voying and protecting our Iron Curtain,
gigantic merchant navy?"
We have far greater reserves in of merchant scamen than
and
תן
We are cupable, too, of greater development of strength the naval sphere than any na tion.
German air venom narrow waters, we chased the America.
to its funk holes; men enemy fleet and ships is something dictated clawed an air armada from the by economie necessity: she did skles; nursed valuable convoys not suffer defeat at sea.
and kept supplied the battered
To many it would seem that to as island of Malta, For any nation now
America has committed a grave scas sume command of the merely because a bank balance Calabria, Matapan, and the psychological blunder by as- can afford it leaves a sour evacuation of Greece and Crete summing commands on the score
a grave are events synonymous with of current strength alone. taste, not to mention
Today America with a naval suspicion that the ring of ve British naval nymphs
strength of 850,000 men, as op-
Britain's accomplished sacrifice.
150,000, is In Wall It would be unfair to America posed to
too to assert that our strength in insisting
on its strongly in terms of mere La seniority today Mediterrancan adequate three cruisers, seven ships and men.
is best in Copying all that con-British
and naval technique destroyers, eight frigates and several subs-but it still stitutes the nucleus of a vic- ceremonial, the American Navy toriaus fleet.
Is now committing the cardinal assuming too much But does numerical strength error of mean everything? Are tradition, authority in too short a time.
be
room
can waves from
a board Street.
British
triumphs in the the Mediterranean, particularly, have im- been too recent and sweeping to permit a magnanimous atll- tude to American assumption of power.
The Americans mensely impressed by the general atmosphere.
One American, looking at the tablet in the hall of Admiralty House with the names on it of
all the Naval Commanders-in- Chlef dating back to 1700 something, commented: "It needs a British admiral to live up to
place like this."
On the tablet were such names as Lord Hood, the Earl
Vincent, at St
Lord Keith, Nelson, Gollingwood and many
others.
Sentiment, Judging from re
In the face of crippling losses, fighting Italian naval strength
THAT SUDDEN HEART ATTACK
ISN'T SO SUDDEN.....
DOCTOR is flying to By CHAPMAN A Doon this month to
PINCHER
cent events, can {11 oppose explain how he believer the American expediency.
suffer an attack of coronary thrombosis.
Morrison has tried out the blood test on scores of patients at the Los Angeles General Their subsequent histories have proved that the test accurately ding- Musceptibility to heart
11ospital.
Who ordered this latest op-out of the world's worst coronary arteries which feed nosed
trouble in three out of every
word "sudden" can be taken
pointment? President Truman,
hazard- "sudden iired of procrastination
and health have heart attack." vacillation, is sald to taken the decision.
nuval
man
Defied Defeat
..
team---
the heart itself.
The blockage is caused by a four cases. blood clot. But the formation
He atresica in his report just of: this clat is only the final published that the test is still
2 stage of long blocking-up in the research stage and not.
process.
recommends
Dr Lester Morrison-leading British a Piqued and hurt,
ten-man research
uct ready for routine hospital opinion considers the claims that a simple blood test.
Heart specialists are sure the decision precipitous and i ad- can give carly warning that an
process to brought on by an in- vised, analogous indeed to a apparently healthy man is head-
herited dietary defect. It is The treatment which Morri- Jumping off Brooklyn ing for heart trouble.
for people found
cannot son in people who Bridge before learning to swim.
Until now there has been no reliable method of anticipating cope, properly with a lot of fat likely to develop heart trouble
In their food.
is simply u diet low in form of the most dangerous
The result is that millions of cholesterol. minuto oil droplets appear in heart attack--what doctors call coronary thrombosis.
their blood after they have Doctors have had, to stand by eaten a fatty meal. These helplessly while the death rate droplets deposit a gummy sub- from this complaint has more stance that builds up les rust H sufferers, should than doubled during the last "inside an iron pipe. ten years.
The gummy substance, which
Tbest it, is a psychological blunder an insult to o naval power which has defied defout in two world wars, and is now brough how only by national economic stringetCY,
BLOCKAGE
TULE men who have dovised the
AVOID—-
TE recommends that heart evold: Cream soups, liver, kidney, fat meat, and fat flah.
18 called cholesterol, narrows They should ration them-
the bore and eventually caure
blood clot to form Dr Morrison's
selves severely with sich cheese, butter, margarine, and anything
Д
In 1916 he hit idea upon the
offering
of
the shares on New York mar- loet, and with there American capital holdings.. Royal Dutch Shell gained a firm footing in the enemy camp. During the First World War Deterding placed himself and his
company at the disposal of Bri- tain.
Meanwhile, In Persia, a young Englishman ramed W. Krox
d'Arcy, who had made a fortune from an Austra- lian gold mine, abtained in 1001 ; & concession from tho Shah to search for oil.
A little ol was found, and d'Arcy, needing more capital, tried again with the help of the Burmah Oil Company.
at Maidan-i-Nat- Ultimately
oil was struck in large quantities on May 20, 1908. The Anglo-Pornian
(now Anglo- Iranian) Oil Company formed
a year later, Persia's output in 1950 was estimated at 32,250,000 metrie tons-ihe fourth largest in the world, 1
Was
Russian oil comes chiefly from the Caucasus, the Volga-Ural- Emba fields, west of the Urals, and Rumania, from which the Soviet Union now draws B0 per- cent. of production. The Soviet is the third largest producer (an estimated 37,000,000 metric tons in: 1950) but its expanding industrial programine absorbs every drop.
In 1896 when the Standard Öll frust wan practically supreme with control of 90 per- cent. of world production the Royal Dutch 011 Company was formed at The Hague, with con- cessions in Sumatra.
It made such vigorous beginning that Rockefeller determined to crush it and The same is true of the United For two States, which uses even more oll declared open war.
percent. than it produces-60 years he sold petroleum in
of the available world supplies.
In Western Europe at prices below
Trag the richest well, are American production costs, but for inland and pipelines are not falled in his object because yet completed to link them with When they are, con- Henri Deterding, secretary and the sea. live wire of the Royal Dutch, alderable increase in production had been able to obtain backing is predicted,
In the Gulf of Mexico drill- from the Rothschlida.
The Dutch company's chief ing being developed in the difficulty was that it had to oc, from floating platforms or
from plers, in some cases operate overseas but lacked
mach as 30 miles out. ships. Its rival in the Indian Will the world's supplies dry Occan, the British Sheli Trans up? At present tochnicians de- port and Trading Company, had clarod that there is enough un- a fleet of some of the beat tapped reserve to fulfi all tankers afloat.
foreseeable needs.
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Supplanted by Americs dur- Ing the last 10 years as tho. world's principal...naval power but still second among the nations--Britain how figured but poorly among the commands.
The North Atlantic Ocean will
have an American
an treatment for preventing heart sure how much of the damage.
Keep clear of these tally S. C. M. Post, Ltd. Supreme Commander (Admiral attacks price it is known that a ing "gum" la circulating in the
-foods, Dr Morrison tells: hin Fechtdler) with a British de persone is rusceptible patient's blood-stroom
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