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Show oo BRITISH OIL LAND SEIZURE I IN FAR EAST DEFENDED LONDON. Dec. 21. Sir Charles Greenway. chairman of the Anglo-Pcr- sian Oil company. In a speech Mon- ! ty at i meeting of his company, deal- in- with the oil controversy between . Great Britain and the United States. ! siiid the Standard Oil companv be-j be-j fore the war claimed certain oil rights In Pah -tine, which would have tho 3d , effect of neutralizing the complaints IQI against British war-acquired rlgh's in IH , Mesopotamia. j Sir rhnrles said there was no qus- BP loot ag an t An 'm ica to the world's potential oil field's "If the Standard Oil compav's rights In r i i fl , and there is no indication of any de-.ire de-.ire to abandon them, the rights of I ! other nationals, other than ihe enem of the late Turkish empire. niuM recognized, he declared. "To act in any other way would be to adopt a poh. y of the closed door' In favor of afl America against British and other na- LH tional Interests." The London Times, discussing the aH ;n,' l,T ' the remar ot Sir (hnrb., important may b,. takt n as representing the H, lt"- ish official view of the contw! e. s, ' B |