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Blocking the Oil Veins

By

H. N. Brailsford

THAT oil is the raw

material of victory we learned during the Great War.. Whether the League will deny it to the Duce's tanks and bombing planes rests with Mr. Eden and other statesmen to decide. America will be no obstacle. That is the conviction I have brought home with me from a two-months' stay in the States.

The Administration, Congress and the average man are agreed. They mean to preserve Stubbs Rd. the technical neutrality, of their country in this African war, but they are resolved that no American interests small pro- fiteer in blood.

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 26, 1936,

TRADE FAIR

Coincident with the House of Commons announcement on the subject of the

proposed privately-sponsored British Em- pire and China Trade Fair in Hongkong, comes the result of

the

and

accept

NOTES OF THE DAY

ONE FOR ALL; ALL FOR ONE

The criticism of the Labour Leader, Mr. Clement Attlee, that the British Government has not shown consistency in its policy to- wards the League of Nations, may be justified to some degree. The cabled despatches from Britain concerning the foreign affairs de bale in the House of Commons are too brief to allow one to form any opinion with respect to the reason- ableness or justice of Mr. Attlee's claim. But if Mr. Attlee is a champion of the League of Nations, we fail to discover anything in Mr. Eden's speech to the House of which he can fairly complain. For Mr. Eden has so defined the British policy that it cannot possibly be

divorced from Geneva's.

If Mr.

canvass which the Hong- kong General Chamber of Commerce had carried out to ascertain current local opinion on the matter. On the one hand, we have the information conveyed to Parliament that the organisers of the Fair have formed an influential committee in Britain to get into.touch with prospective exhibitors, that the Attlee were to find fault with the Governor of Hongkong has

League's dilatoriness in the Italo- accepted a position us Patron, Ethiopian crisis, we should be that the British Consul- inclined to agree with him that General in Canton and the there was cause for complaint; and Commercial Secretary for South in spite of Mr. Eden's defence of the League on that particular score. China-have-been-authorised-to But we fail to see in what way

honorary positions on Mr. Eden or the British Govern the Council of the Fair. On the ment can be held responsible for Geneva's procrastination. We feel, other, it is disclosed that the from what we have seen of British local canvass has revealed very polley heretofore in the matter of little support for the project, the Italo-Ethioplan conflict and the that fifty-eight of the seventy- gressor, that His Majesty's Govern-

consequent action to deter the ag five firmy answering the ment has taken a bold course; and questionnaire. are definitely there has at no time been a more devoted "disciple of collective action against the holding of the Fair,

in this crisis than Mr. Eden, both and that none of the principal while he was Minister for League Hongkong merchant firms of Nations Affairs and since his holding

promotion to the Foreign Secretary-. important British

ship.. More than that, had Britain agencies have promised their been less diplomatic and circumspect support. The situation created we might have found ourselves Involved In a serious test of is, to say the least, decidedly awkward. There has beon a great deal of propaganda con- ducted at Home in connection with the Fair, with the result that many prominent person- appointment with Mr. Eden's In- ages have lent--their support to in the matter of foreign policy, he consistency and lack of forcefulness the venture. It would, how-is lamenting the Government's ever, be of interest to know conviction that a measure of re- whether these people were in- armament is necessary in Britain. Would Mr. Attlee have the country formed of Hongkong opinion on lead the sanctions parade, enforce the subject or have since been an oll embargo and thus defy the made aware of it. Much has Italian threat that such a measure been made of the support backing of adequate sea and air would mean war, and without the promised by the Hongkong forces? Here, we suggest, is Government, but it is now clear greater inconsistency than Any that the blessing which it pre-alleged against Mr. Edon. maturely bestowed on the Fair,

strength with Italy. As it is, our leadership at Genova has gravely impaired the formerly sympathetic and Britain. And the same time relationship existing between Italy

that Mr. Attico

expresses dis-

without first consulting the sponsored by the business business community of the interests of the Colony. It is Colony, or awaiting public re- the man on the spot, acquainted action thereto, has placed as he is with local: conditions, the Government in an un- not influential committees at fortunate predicament. Our own Home, or even British manu- attitude is that the question of facturers who may possibly be whether a Fair should or should unaware of Hongkong opinion, not be held is one in which the whose advice should decide the opinion of the local business point. As matters are, there is community should be the dea danger of the Fair being termining factor. We are all forced upon the Colony, con- for n Fair, provided the times trary to the considered views are propitious, assurance of of the local business.community. adequate local support is forth- In auch circumstances, a pro-

LTD. coming, and the event, like jeet of the kind contemplated

previous functions of a like could scarcely be otherwise than kind, is a community effort stupid and farcical.

Another omission, however, The oil interests are a formid- was deliberale: Congress will able Colossus, yet one may be give the President no power to reasonably sure that Congress THE problem has its compllen- discriminate between belliger will grant the right to put an tions, but the state of mind ents. The Versailles Treaty embargo on its sale to the belll- of the average American citizen has caused most Americans to gerents, and that on one condi- is a model of confident simpli- feel grave doubt about the tion the President will use it

of belligerents the League itself must also take city. Two considerations have classification decided him. He read the lurid into victims and aggressors. this risk. evidence of the Senate's inquiry Henceforth they are all taboo. The evidence is clear enough. into the International trade in

The first test of the new con- In the first place, the Adminis- aring with indignation and dis- ception of neutrality has been tration has already done all that amusingly unreal. In fact, was possible, given the defects The second consideration that American sympathies by an of the Act, to check the export led American sentiment to the overwhelming majority go to of all to Italy. It used its hold now conception of neutrality the Ethiopian underdog.

over American shipping. Most,.

gust.

.

in 1812 and in 1917, the United

was drawn from history. Twice, Few, it may be, believe in the if not all, the regular lines are States was involved in war be altruism of the British Govern- subsidised. Most of them have As creditor. Washington used cause it defended the traditional ment's motives, The delays of received lavish credits. right of neutrals to trade with the League are noted, and some belligerents.

critics remit their readers its power to forbid the carrying Now on one thing. nine that the League Powers supply of oil in American vessels for Americans in ten are passion- most of the raw materials for Italy-at all oventa, in quanti- tica beyond the average civilian ately resolved. They mean to this aggression.

demand. This was a algnificant keep out of the next European

gesture, though, unluckily,

war.

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The more Europe rearms and NONE the less, nine Ameri- Norwegian tankers soon rushed

cans in ten follow the halt- in to meet the demand. ranges itself in alliances and. pacts, the firmer grows this, ing efforts of the League with What, then, of Congress? American resolve to stand aloof, sympathy and wish it success., Will it follow the Administra-

The Neutrality Act, passed in'

In this singular case strict tion, when Oil gets busy in its lobbies? A straw poštal vote a hurry last summer, sprang neutrality is equivalent to par- was taken shortly before I from these two lines of thought. ticipation in economic sanc- sailed. It gave the startling It forbade the sale of "imple- tions, since Ethiopia has never ments of war" to any belliger- traded, save to a negligible result that 80 per cent. of the members of the two Houses ent, but because the Senate had extent, with the United States, taken together would support an cast its searchlight on munitions The chance to amend this embargo on oil.

only, in the narrower sense of hasty Neutrality Act has now Big business has not yet this word, it naively omitted any come with the reassembling of recovered the political ascen- reference to raw materials: Congress.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

I suppose we'll patch it up somehow. This is the

aleventh time Arthur and I have separated,'

dancy that it lost.. during the slump, and of all the quasi- monopolies Oil is traditionally the most suspect. Indeed, I doubt whether it dare make an open fight for its "rights."

The Rockefeller dynasty has boen engaged for many years in an effort to make its peace with the Churches, and to live down. its lurid past. Already, so I gathered, representations this subject had reached it from the Churches. **

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Finally, it may be asked, will not Washington expect Geneva to take the first decisive step? I doubt it. Washington has its own pride: it does not wait for the Old World.

CAN see before me, as I write these lines, the dignified per- sonality of the Secretary of State..

When Mr. Cordell Hull; re- ceived me in Washington, one day in November; to talk over these matters, he struck one. note over and over again. He was proud of the prompt action of his Department in recognis- ing the existence of a State of War in the early days of Octo bor. It acted in as many hours as the League took days. "There," said Mr. Hull, "we gave a lead to the world." 1 turned the talk to oil, the Neu- trality Act, and other indiscreet matters. I must not report in detail what Mr. Hull replied, but one phrase, I think I may quote:

RENAME

"I hope," he said emphati- cally," "before very long to give

·lend again,”