Oil and Politics

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 11

Oil and Politics

f> Writing on the Jtofchchild mflnenei on Enteaite policy with respect to Russia the Scots "Forward" says: \

• There is the moHK conclusive evidence that the Rothschilds act for; Standard Oil. j • . . •- - i i Take', for example, the most .danming exposure of Big Business evai? published, Mr. Henry Demavest Lloyd's "Wealth against Commoti'wcalth" (Harper Bros., 1894). Mr. , Lloyd's book is a careful, doou-jionted history of the riae of the OH T::ust, and he declares (page 443) that ; (a) The Ilothchilds act in ttussia as agents for iho American Oil Trust; . < ,' (b) That their policy is never to ■engage in commercial ent 3ipr.se' on own account; I (c) That they, sough!, to get oxntrol oE Russian I'etroleum; iliac tfifey co'noentraiea upon "" transport facilities for oil; that they ■ "Would leave hundreds cC cars ]<iatled with petroleum on the tracks_i'or v.oeKS to prevei.'i compe'itors from shipping and from lining their contracts. When tJi3 city of Bafoimi ip. 13SS refused to allow it (the Rothifagency) to lay pipes over tn^ , city lands to the liarbour, it wefe with tlic enthusiastic approbation of the agitated citizens."

(d) In 18-19 the Rothcliilds concluded a great ileal with the Russian Minister of Finance for an mouopolj , .

Colonel Repington tells us In Mβ "Diavy"'. that Lord Rothschild ws invited to the British Cabinet meetiHfc at the outbreak of war.

Wo do not care Uvopenco wliethe* "Rothschild is a Jev/ or a Gentile, what we are interested in knowing is ih4 real force behind the policy that fa%* aiiced Kolchak and De-niken and Wrangei, and prevents us to-day iroriy engaging in a p_ effective trade wit£t : Russia.

Tho French Rothschilds are "deep ,, m Russian bonds, and the Rothschilds were Standard Oil agenis in Russia.

Lord Riddel] is Mr. Lloyd George's great Press friend. He owns, among other things, the "News of the World" with a 3,000,000 circulation, and h& described'the Conteresio=> at Genoa 2&s "SCENE OF BATTLE OF OIL KINGS." . i The -Shell" O : l gang (over it waves the Union Jack!) lias a capital of £430 millions and pays a dividends of 275 per cent. Much of the stock is "watered." "Sholi" has got Mesopotamia oil —that- is the reason there was a Kut-Baghuad damnaiga durisg i:Jte war, and that is ,tlie reason "we" have got the mandate, ana that is th« reason "we ,, keep up an larmy ef oooupat'on. And in '-Shell" are J&e British Rotliscliilds.

Why does France (Rothschild) back Turkey and Britain (Shell) hack Greece and Sir Basil Zarahoff? Get. answers to these questions and yon get ;at the realities o r politics.