The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-07-04

questions. But there's some MANIFOLD $64 answers
involved At this time due to tight censorship imposed
by the British foreign office, and State depart
ment's attitude of silence it is impossible to gain al
overall picture of the Palestinan situation. However
enough information has been sitting from behind
the Silken Curtain" to convince the skept
lcal that all is not we'll
No. 1 authority on the record of ON State depart
ment sin double-dealng the Palestine question is
other than BARLEY Crum, campaign manager for
Wendell Willkie in 1940 and recently member
of the AngloAmercan committee of inquiry on Paes.
tine appointed by President Truman in 1915 After
more than year this committee the obvious pur-
for its establishment being "whitewash" British
policy in that unhappy Middle Eastern country Mr..
Crum recently wrote book his findings-"Behnd
the Silken Curtains
Regarding American activities Chapter 2-The Sec
ret File in the State Departments especial in
terest to all Americans opposed to war and do
not want to their again marching off to the
battle field writes that shortly after he received
his presidential appointment he handed document
containing confidential communications between our
State department and the Arabian potentates of the
Near East:
ait was sorry and bitter record for an American
to read. According this file, since September 49,
1888 each time promise made to American
Jewry regarding Palestine, the State department
promptly sent messages to the Arab rulers reassur-
ing Them in effect, that regardless of what prom
ised publicly, nothing would be done to change the
situation in Palestine.
at clear that the State department continued
playing both ends against the middle under Presi-
dent Truman's administration. On August 49, 1o45
President Truman revealed he had discussed PaIes-
tine with Mr.. Churchill and Mr. Attee Potsdam
and that they wanted to let many Jews into PaIes
tine as possible But October g. in a confidential
cable to Baghdad, Cairo Damascus, beirut and Jdda
the State department explained that President Tru-
man and the prime ministers engaged in exploratory
correspondence on this subject = but there has
been change in this governments previously an
nounced attitude Palestine"
This is only fragment of the Crum report but it
is enough to show the reader there something amiss
something about the whole situation that smells
The Smell of Oil?
That this smell may well be the smell of oil-Stand
ard Oil, in particulars borne by our saber-rat
Ting red batting, warbreeding meddling in the affairs
of other Balkan and Middle Eastern countries
year ago it was our concern for Iran (Persia)
when sIzeable portion OF that country fighting a
civil for it's independence from corrupt dicta-
torial central government at Teheran. Our press
worked nightly in building up war of nerves. against
Russian interference" over this one, but when the
smoke had cleared away the truth out-out real
interest in this internal Iranian affair was OII-Oi
controlled Jointly by the AngloArabian Oil (Stand-
ard and Texas and British oil interests)-oiI that the
Sovies, were demanding thereof fair portion since
they too had helped to win the war.
More recently it the launching of the Truman
doctrine to Greek and Turkish democracy" from
Since democracy doesn't exist in those
TWO countries the skeptical among population inn
began looking for background reasons
for our announced intention of buwarking the auto
cratic governments of both countries: a man of the
Med1terranian-Midde Eastern area; knowledge of the
acts behind the Iranian crisis; historical review
If almost 80 of British foreign office divide and
'uin tactics in Palestine and the motvating reasons
therefore, spelled out but conclusion, OIL.
Strangely enough, neither president, Secretary
If State Marshall the State department has ever
tented that the real motivating force behind the Tr
doctrine is the financial interest Standard
Dill has in the Middle East and safeguarding of all
treas adjacent thereto including Greece Turkey italy
md Palestine.
Stlll more recently is what President Truman seen
IL to call the Hungarian outrage" when the Small
folders party (who poed 576 of the popular vote last
alb decided to GUST Premier Macy because they had
Ineffective. Watch must be kept of what
occurs The Montana representatives in the
over house must be Iroed To onroco Tho