J T Duce (1 results)
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Published by The Nation Associates, New York, 1948
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue printed wraps 22x28cm. 12pp text in 2 columns. Near fine. During 1946-48 Nation Associates, publishers of progressive news magazine "The Nation", issued a series of Memoranda lobbying the UN and US on Middle East policy and Spain. The unnamed author(s) may be Nation Associates' Director Lil…lie Shultz who worked with the Jewish Agency for Palestine, or its founding President Freda Kirchwey, the pro-Israel anti-Franco Editor of "The Nation". This dates weeks into the Arab-Israeli War, after Truman became the first world leader to recognise Israel, overruling his State Department which favoured friendship with the Arabs. It critiques a highly sensitive secret report from Aramco's Vice President JT Duce to President WF Moore, dated Cairo, 22 December 1947. Quoting Duce at length, it accuses Aramco of working with the British, Arabs, and US State and Defence Departments to undermine Truman on partition, recognition and stabilisation of Israel (pp1-2). Aramco aims to use British refineries as it needs its help to transport oil via the Gulf given insecurity over the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. The British via the Iraq Petroleum Company and Anglo-Iranian Oil Company are creating a shortage for the Jews at Haifa, making oil available to Arabs at Kirkuk (I-II). In Cairo, Duce lobbied the Arab League, Egyptian Government, Misr Bank, the Syrians, and the Saudi delegation including Emir Faisal and his legal advisor Jamil Baroody on Tapline, offered to convey the League's views on a Zionist State to the State Department, and advised on how to sway US public opinion (III-VIII). Duce expressed his fears about a Communist Jewish state, their role in the Syrian riots, and their agents in Saudi Arabia (IX). The piece calls for US officials to be dismissed (X-XI). Rare with 13 locations on Worldcat (OCLC 963663). Not recorded on Library Hub.
