OIL INTERESTS
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PROTECTION OF COMPANY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) Received December 9, 1.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. After Captain Eden, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the Note sent to Persia concerning the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s interests, Mr G. Lansbury asked if the last sentence meant that under certain circumstances the Government proposed •to take armed jmeasures against Persia. * Captain Eden: The statement is clear. We hold the Persian Government responsible for the protection of the company’s interests. Mr Lansbury: Does it mean that in certain circumstances while the matter is being arbitrated the Government might feel compelled to take other measures ?
Captain Eden: My statement is necessarily hypothetical. The Government can only be guided by circumstances as they arise. Mr Lansbury appealed to Mr Baldwin to undertake to inform the House before measures other than arbitration were taken.
Mr Baldwin: It is impossible to enter into hypothetical questions. Captain Eden informed Captain Peter MacDonald that the Persian Government was under direct treaty to protect the company’s interests. Mr Lansbury, later, stating that lie was dissatisfied with the Ministerial statements, sought to move the adjournment of the subject as several newspapers suggested that Russia was behind Persia’s intransigence. There was loud and ironical laughter when Mr Lansbury, reading the motion, referred to the “Anglo-Persian” as the “Anglo-Russian” Oil Company. Sir W. H. Davjson: You have let the cat out of the bag now. (Laughter.) The speaker rejected Mr Lansbury s motion on the ground that it did not draw attention to a “definite matter.” Mr Lansbury: But in the event of some damage to the company’s property the Government’s statement will permit it to take action which will lead to war. The speaker qjaintaTned his ruling and said that Mr Lansbury was suggesting a purely hypothetical situation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1932, Page 2
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321OIL INTERESTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1932, Page 2
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