The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-20
By E. A WRAY.

London, Feb. 20-How British diplomacy persuaded France to de- liver up to Great Britain all her actual and potential oil fields is told | by Monsieur Francis Delaisi in his | book entitled "Oil-Its Influence on Politics."
 M. De1aisi described how, under the Treaty of Versailles, all the booty immediately realizab1e went to Britain, while France received advan- tages realizable in a more or less dis tant future. The United States stood outside the negotiations and thus left the field free for Britain.
 At the time of the Treaty of San Reno, he recounts, French prestige was at a low ebb in the Near East because the Emir Feisal was pushing the Senegalese battalions of General Gouraud towards the Syrian coast. The moment was dangerous for France. And the strangest part of it all was-and everybody knew it that the power, of Emir F'eisal de- pended upon the arms, the money and the support of the British.
 Sign Sig and You Shall Have Syria agreement with the Royal Dutch and you shall have Syria M. Millerand accepted. Immediately Feisal was left to himself. Thus the triumphal entry of General Gouraud into Da- mascus was paid for by the abandon ment of all oil resources
 The San Reno agreement relates to fIumdnld, ASla the LerTl- tories of the old Russian Empire, French colonies and British colonies, and it may be extended to other coun- tries by mutual consent.
 fields of Mesopatamia," says M. Delaisi, (which are abandoned to the British trust, but in fact the whole of our oil interests, present and future, whether in the colonies or abroad"
 ''F'urthermore,'' he points out, "as the British trust, thanks to it's per sonneI and to it's special equipment. is alone in position to begin ex- ploitation: the part of our business ing capital. The Americans are thus rigidly excluded from that part of the Rumanian oil fields which may fall to the share of France"
 ''ShaII Be Under British Control"
 The San Reno agreement also lays down that the oil is to be exploited by a private company which Shall be under permanent British control" (and in which, consequently. America can have no part)
 ITO put it in other worlds says M. Delaisi, i've are treating the Anglo Persian Oil Company a privileged French concern, while at the same time undertaking the responsibility of guaranteeing, free of charge, the security of its enterprises in all our zone of inf1uence.''
 San Reno went even further than this. It agreed that in the French colonies protectorates and spheres of influence, including Algeria, Tuni3 and Morocco, the French Government will facilitate the acquisition of con sessions to every F'ranco-British group "of good standing and fur nishing the necessary guarantees.' No loophole of any description was left for American participation.
 "France Is Tied to British Trust"
 ''Henceforward." says M. Delaisi. ''by this internal pact, in every part of the globe, abroad or at home, in the present and the future, France is tied to the British trust. If by chance one of our countrymen thought of working alone or with an American group, our Government would be compelled to refuse him support, If not actually to discourage him.
 Another great danger to France is, according to this authority, that the three great British groups, the Shell, Royal Dutch and the Anglo-Persian possess not merely capital, but all the equipment, technical experts and business experience relating to the oil exploitation.
 France has to supply a certain amount of the capital required in French territories. But who can pre- vent, he asks, the British groups tell. ing the inexperienced French that their territories are unworthy of de- velopment, while at the same time preventing any other concerns mak- ing an effort to exploit them?
 'Trust Has Its Own Immense Con-
 sessions"
 "The A glo-Dutch trust,'' he says, from now onwards has it's own i'm mense concessions in all regions of the globe; among them are much richer and etter situated ones than ours, for instance those - the neigh borhood of the Panama Canal. Is it likely that it will disperse its efforts and equipment over all the oil fields