P.O.Box 34,
Rockville, Md.

July 18, 1939

Mr. Cleanth Brooks Jr.,
Managing Editor, THE SOUTHERN REVIEW,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

It may be that you will care to use the
enclosed article, OILING THE WAR MACHINES, what with the
examination of the oil industry which is scheduled for this
fall by the President's "Monopoly" committee, and the great
deal of unrealistic discussion over the outcome of the "next
war." By "unrealistic" I mean discussion which does not
consider raw materials, or if so, only glibly.

As you may recall from my correspondence with
you last winter relative to a monopoly article, I am a free-
lance writer on scientific and raw materials subjects, have
been a New York Times correspondent in China and a civilian
chemist with the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service, and
have done considerable research on petroleum-- my interest
in the subject stemming from an interest in Germany's method
of converting coal into gasoline. I have written on oil
for the Baltimore Sun, CURRENT HISTORY, COMMON SENSE, Science
Service, WORLD PETROLEUM, North American Newspaper Alliance, etc.

Statistics used in this article represent the
best agreements I could find, using figures supplied by the
Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce, trade journals,
reports by the American Petroleum Institute and independent
oil experts, official German figures as quoted in the New
York Times; also U.S. Tariff Commission reports and personal
knowledge acquired from conversations with oil experts both
here at Washington, and a year and a half ago while on a
trip through the Near East.

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