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...anyone seriously believing in "democracy" really defend Anglo-American conduct in Greece...
Some Government officials darkly suspected the big companies of starving the armed services to bring increased pressure for 1) congressional approval of the Anglo-American oil agreement (TIME, Oct. 8, 1945), 2) more imports from the Middle East. With small independents fighting the agreement, it looked as if it would be shelved this session anyway...
Frozen Balances. Within six weeks, Britain must meet another financial problem, which will shrink the dollar supply still more. Under the terms of the Anglo-American loan, Britain must make all sterling balances, earned by other nations after July 15, convertible into dollars. More serious by far is the problem of the $13.5 billion in accumulated sterling balances piled up by Britain's creditors. At present, these balances can be spent only in the sterling area. However, the Anglo-American loan agreement provides that any amounts from the accumulated balances which are made available for spending after July...
...Holy Land, and, perhaps, hoping for Russian votes in the special assembly, seek an independent Palestine-which would give them immediate control. This catastrophic plan will not be adopted, for the United States supports the British view that only an investigating committee be chosen now. But even this Anglo-American proposal is frustrating and inconclusive. Not only have numerous impartial groups submitted reports on Palestine in the past dozen years, (the most recent was the Anglo-American Commission on Inquiry last spring) but it has already been stated in the House of Lords that should Britain find the new recommendations...
Their arguments were effectively stymied by the Eli rejoinder that Russian expansion has been stopped in Greece and Iran without recourse to Anglo-American alliance, and that world security must depend upon world organization rather than the unilateral action of a British-American treaty...