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Show Washington Government Being Be-ing Urged Along Perilous Course Says Paper. MANCHESTER. England, May 20. The Manchester Guardian in an editorial editor-ial today says the question of oil tends to overahadow almost all other International Inter-national problems, "and this by virtuo of a three-fold occasion, namely, tho Turkish treaty, the Mexican revolution and tho discontents in America, was forcibly expressed yesterday." Referring to the American estimate that oil deposits may be exhausted in 20 years, the paper says: "Hence, of I course, tho constant, pre-occupation of Washington and the great American oil corporations with tho politcls of Mexico." Tho Guardian says that whatever gaps there may have been In Under-Secretary Under-Secretary of State Polk's survey they have been filled in by Alfred C. Bedford, Bed-ford, of tho Standard Oil company of New Jersey in his spoech in California In which Mr. Bedford is quoted as Baying Bay-ing that the Carranza government had discriminated against American oil firmB and that virtually no oil had gone to tho United States during 1919. Washington Taking Perilous Course. "In the one political statement on which the Standard Oil president ven tured," continued the newspaper, "we may seo a sharp indication of tho perilous per-ilous course along which the Washington Washing-ton government Is being urged. This was a demand for a frankly aggressive foreign policy on the part of tho United States a policy tho first step in which would clearly have to be an invasion of Mexico for tho purpose of establishing a protectorate, thus placing tho Standard Stand-ard Oil company and Its allies in absolute abso-lute command of what is believed to be the richest oil region in tho world. "It is a very serious commentary on the rovolutlou of last week which, by displacing Carrauza was said to havo removed the great obstacle to peace between Mexico and the United States." The newspaper thinks that the questions raised by the Washington Washing-ton report are world-wide and not confined con-fined to American Interests In Mexico. It expresses the opinion that Under-Secretary Under-Secretary Polk's survey, with what It terms the secretary's specific indictment indict-ment of Great Britain's oil policy, is an accusation directed against tho British policy in the .middle easL At tho same time the hope is expressed ex-pressed by the Guardian that the Polk report states Great Britain's case stronger than the facts warrant; but it urges the government and the British Brit-ish people to take Eeriously the judgment judg-ment of the world on the government's eastern schemes which is implied In Secretnry Polk'a criticism of the British Brit-ish oil policy. on |