Abstract
"IT is even probable that the supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products." This quotation, from President Coolidge, appeared on the title-page of a book by Ludwell Denny published in the United States in 1928 under the challenge "We Fight for Oil". This caused a sensation at the time, largely because it developed in no uncertain, often hostile, terms the theme of Anglo-American rivalry (‘oil ‘war that author called it) in a race to secure the world‘s major oil resources outside the United States. Much has happened since this supposed ‘‘menace to world peace was so bitterly proclaimed, and those who remember the stir caused at the time by this strongly anti-British thesis will read with considerable interest another American‘s survey of how that fight has been carried on since the end of the First World War up to the present time.
American Oil Operations Abroad
By Leonard M. Fanning. Pp. ix + 270 + 93 plates. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1947.) 20s.
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MILNER, H. American Oil Operations Abroad. Nature 161, 186 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161186a0
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