Show Round Meny-Go-Round I I I. I Go o e quit i Britain Warned c cIran 0 0 Iran Months Ago Age By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-V. U. U S. S officials h ma made e some alarming st statements about i 1 Iranian oil crisis But the real fact is tl ll privately they are arc even more alarmed than they indicate in their public statements There are I three reasons for this worry worry worry- 1 1 If II Iranian oil is H cut off it will mean r gasoline gasoline- rationing inthe in inthe the United States For z J J t Iranian Imn oil all now supplies i England France western western western west west- ern Europe is vital for Drew rears Pear North Atlantic P Pact lct rearmament If t supply stops the U USA S A will have haye to i tt t up part of oC the slack and we are arc alre aln importing oil at t the rate rale of oC 1 a day 2 2 What Moscow wants mo most t is rc revs lion ion and unrest in Iran thereby giving ini Communists an opportunity to take With Brit British sh oil royalties cut off oH th more likely to happen 1 3 Trouble in oil countries is i ta ious The Iranian shutout of the Eish I E ish could coul result in an shu shub shull then one in to Arabia Already trouble brewing in these areas The great greaf country of Venezuela could get the th the urge too J Inside fact about the Iranian that the State Department was war of the situation months ago aJo and in l il warned the British Justice William Willian Douglas who dur during n two summers i all 11 over Iran on horseback reported the White House that a d disastrous si st was brewing Douglas also made pi pug speeches urging action before beCore it wai war late j J The State Stale Department in turn ain a ca cain in British Ambassador Franks and A As ant Secretary George McGhee l gave ga ei about as tough a dressing down possible to give a friendly diplomat r took place last winter when there i still ic to act Three Troubles One Troubles One trouble was was was' Britain was as slow in increasing its payments to Iran Whereas America l companies in Arabia paid 50 per per c Britain paid around 25 per cent j Another trouble was that the 25 Import Export-Import Bank loan which offered Iran was aimed to improve s s' s ards arils of living thus heading off off c But the feudal lords of 1 who really run the country were fi opposed to building schools or di t i tup up the landed estates even estates even with A Acan Ac A can money Third trouble is that its it's diplomatic relations to force an an ally as England to increase oil royalties though the trouble resulting from its its ure may result in gasoline rationing inU i iii in U USA S A. A Likewise its it's difficult to get rulers of Iran to reform their land tern even though lack of oC reform reform I bring on communism Inland larine Marine Base A Ease A slap at pu put regional politics ahead of national i f fest iest it est is hidden in a House report not yet the press A lone paragraph buried i is in report sharply criticizes the location locati the Marine Corps Depot at inland bany Ga 1 lj t This is aimed at Georgias Georgia's Con COD CODman Conman man Carl Vinson who not only br bri brithe the depot to Georgia but has used his to fluence as chairman of oC the House An r Services Committee to put other ther mi installations in Georgia In fact Vi V Vis has now gone so 50 far as to slip sUp an ment meat into the new defense production compelling the armed services to co with him prior to the acquisition of real property u j r Vinson has already pushed this air ment through the House If he can ram it down the Senates Senate's throat the Georgian will actually be backed by bi in pushing for bigger and better roW mil bases J J. J However a House subcommittee cd ed by I Congressman Herbert Bonne North Carolina doesn't approve of oC sons son's bringing the Marine l Corps Dep the way inland to Albany GaNote Ga Note The report illustrates the ner in which sectional politics are placed ahead of oC national welfare not in the location of oC military bases b the voting of cattle congressmen ag big city city congressmen on price con conf con t Go Go Secretary of of ense Marshall I brought a G. G I. I signs back with him from K KOne KOne j jOne One read Drive carefully You kill your replacement The day dayi the year old Marshalls Marshall's return h lunch with his staff staf and looked as chas chi ch chias chias as if he had not just spent 36 hours hours' rough plane crossing the Pacific la I Maj Mai Gen Anthony 1 famed paratrooper who replied nu nut the German surrender demand at during luring the Battle of the Bulge looking pea green with fatigue H flown the Pacific with Marshall Omar Bradley did not see sec his old Field Marshal Montgomery on his r trip to Europe Bradley was available Monty 1 didn't di nt show up Perhaps he hc read Bradleys Bradley's new book one of the the human documents to come out of the but which takes some good cracks at atM M Dl gomery courageous ator Bill Benton has a it whip of Secretary of State written and ready to be delivered on Senate floor It was timed to counte a G 0 O P broadside at Acheson exp after his testimony on the MacArthur But Acheson defended h hi h hiso I so skillfully and left the Republics Republica little to criticize that they backe backey As a result Benton never nc deliver speech but filed it away for ture lure use VI |