SOVIET SEIZURE OF OIL REFINERY: U.S. PROTEST REJECTED
VIENNA, August 31.
The Russian High Commissioner for Austria (General Kurasov) .has rejected the. United States protest over the Russian seizure of the Lobau oil refinery, . . , General Kurasov again claimed that the refinery was a German external asset as defined, in the Potsdam Agreement, and was, therefore, liable, to transfer to Russia. In a statement read to the Allied Control Commission after the rejection of the protest, Mr L. Ginzberg, acting American representative on the commission, said that Russia had chosen to regard the Lobau assets as German, although the British and United States interests owned every share. Sir George Rendel, chief of the British delegation to the Austrian Treaty Commission, said that Britain was not trying to push the claims of British interests nor cheat Russia over the Potsdam Agreement, but she wanted Austria to obtain what was rightly Austrian. Russia might rightly claim installations and leases in° some Austrian oilfields, but- Britain considered that the oil underground belonged to Austria.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1947, Page 8
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