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Show I ; S E NATO HS OF J Special Report Made By State "Department Explains Am- : - erican Difficulties. BR' , WASHINGTON', May 17 Exclusion HI ' xt aliens from control of oiL resources HI j -within the empire, government tid in H j developing new supplies in other coun- H .tries and restrictions against disposal L of oil stocks held by British nationals H 'are features of Great Britain's petrol- H I. earn policy, the senate was Informed H today by President Wilson. H The information, given in a special I report from the state department, was H in answer to a senate resolution ask- H ing what disabilities attached to Anier- H lean participation In world petroleum H resources. The governmental policy of H ' Great Britain, the report added also H t contemplates financial and technical H - aid to pioneer companies. H The senate resolution, introduced bv" H Senator Goro, Democrat, Oklahoma, re-! H quested the president also to say what H diplomatic efforts had been made to H ' ireraove tho restrictions upon partici- H Ipatlon in oil development by Ameri- I 1 canB elsewhere than in thb United H .States. Representations had been HJ made to Great Britain concerning re- Tl fitrictions upon oil development in the ! occupied sections of Turkey, the ro- H r Prt aald, and had been met with as- H i surances that no discrimination against H Americans would bo allov.'pd. With re- f gard to Mexico, tho dopartment rcport- i ed the last noto of v.-arning wliich said i) , that tho United States "would not ac- Hl qulesce" in any procedure resulting in confiscation of American oil holdings Observing that all regulations in j England and her possessions were aim- j ed at restricting oil operations to con- trol of British nationals, the report j said. This form would seem to be jus- H tified in. tlie viewpoint of international Hi law, however impolitic it might be, as' H regards reciprocity aud International comity. Citing many consular reports, tho re- H port said that tho British policy ap- H peared to be developing by a process H of deterring foreigners from owning or -operating oil property in the British t isles, colonies or protectorates, by di- i rect participation of the government in 1 i financing larger exploiting companies k of which the Anglo-Persian, baling a H monopoly of tho industry.in Persia was H named and by governmental orders in HI h council preventing British oil compan- H I ies or individuals from selling their H f property to foreigners. French, Jap- H a anese and Dutch policy. was somewhat HI 1 e same, the report indicated, but its effects were of minor importance. HI 9 oo |