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Stumbling Block. The policy is the stumbling block. Ickes' mind is not yet made up, but his words & deeds clearly indicate that he wants the U.S. Government to get a big piece of the world oil reserves. Last month California Arabian Standard Oil Co. (half owned by Texas Co. and half by Standard of California) attempted to get Government funds for a $120,000,000 expansion in the Middle East. This blew up because Ickes-plus the U.S. Army & Navy-wanted a direct Government stock interest...
...violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
Since 1933 the California Arabian Standard Oil Co. (owned 50-50 by Standard Oil Co. of California and Texas Co.) has been leasing concessions from Ibn Saud until today it controls an area 60% larger than California (254,000 sq. mi.), including all the promising fields. Now the U.S. Government itself is negotiating with California Arabian Standard and presumably with Ibn Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate...
Whether the oil deal was imperialism or no, it would bring problems with it: when the U.S. grasps for Arabian oil it also grasps for the Palestine problem, Ibn Saud, Moslems, rabbis...
...forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...