Abstract
Having encouraged the expulsion of French influence from Syria and Lebanon, British policy is intent on obtaining a military commitment by the United States in Palestine to redress the balance. Still the largest factor in Middle East oil, jealous of her American rival, which has an exclusive Arabian franchise to possibly the richest oil reserves in the world, Britain hopes to gain American support to meet Russian expansion. All these blandishments do not inhibit the struggle for trade through the Middle East supply centre, nor the recent war of nerves emanating from London and Jerusalem cynically attempting to equate historic American interest in the Palestine problem with a bid for votes in the next Congressional elections. The campaign to embarrass the United States in the oil-rich lands results in the
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