The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-30

Wendell Wlllkle can use HIS However, a backstage look at certain Russian negotiations here makes you understand why the Russians still are suspicious.
 One of these is the manner in which we have delayed six price less months in selling two old oil refineries in Tyler and Long view, Texas, while the big oil companies jockeyed over how much royalties the Russians should pay them. If these refin- cries had been shipped to Russia and set up behind the lines when first proposed last March, the Russian army would not be par alyzed U as it will be after the fall of the Caucasus.
 You can understand Russian suspicion even better when you examine some of the behind the scenes maneuvers with both Japan and Russia before Pearl Harbor. The Japs were treated with more friendship than the Russians. Here are two ex- amples:
 EXAMPLE NO. 1: Early in 1940 the Japs had contracted with the M. w. Kellogg company to purchase a $3,000,000 oil cracking plant to manufacture aviation gasoline in Japan. They haG paid $2O,OOO down and considered the deal closed. However, Sec retary Hull previously had urged that American oil companies not sell gasoline to Japan in view of its bombing of China, and the Kellogg company finally decided that the construction of a gaso- line plant in Japan might violate the spirit of Hulls request. LAPS GET U. s. SECRETS
 So pr. Maurice Cooke of the Kellogg company told the Jap representatives in New York that the deal was off, and that their S2O,0O0 would be returned.
 ''NO, you keep the money, we have contract" was the Jap reply. ssWe know you want to keep gasoline secrets from us" Jan continued, 'but look"
 He took out thick booklet marked Imperial Japanese Navy" and showed on page lO6 the .know- how" or carefully guarded trade secrets for mak- ing aviation gasoline belonging to the Kellogg company Shell and Universal Oil Products.
 "Where did you get this?" asked the amazed Cooke.
 We pay $7OO,OOO to Universal
 Oil Products company in Ja- pan," was the reply.
 NOTE: Universal Oil Products company is patent pool owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard oil of Indiana, the Texas company and M. w. Kellogg com pany, the same group which also negotiated the synthetic rubber deal with the Nazis and which now is the chief beneficiary ot the Jesse Jones contracts for sym thetic rubber factories. ... RUSSIANS REBUFFED
 EXAMPLE NO. 2: The Kellogg company (which though a mem- Der of Universal Oil Products to some extent competes with it) did not sell the cracking plant to Japan. But one year later, on Jan. IA, 1e4I 1t received signed letter from Russian representa- tives in the United States order- ing sS5. 100000 of aviation gasoline plants.
 These were to be transported to Russia and set up in "safe' areas. Apparently the Russians already figured they would be at tackled by Hitler and feared los of their Caucasian oil.
 Before closing the deal. how. ever, Frank Johnson, vice presi' dent of Kellogg went to Wash ington and consulted with ths state Department. He came bacL with this advice:
 'The State Department
 deesn't want the Russians to
 know lt ls blocking the deal,
 but it says we cannot sell the
 plants. They want ms Co say
 we're ioo busy with other work" This was what Kellogg repre-