A proposal that the United States should be ready to give full military support to Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran in order to prevent the oil supply of the Year East from falling into Russia’s hands was made here last night by Governor Thomas R. Dewey addressing a Lincoln Dinner of the National Republican club at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Gov. Dewey urged that the North Atlantic past he extended along the Mediterranean Sea and beyond its Eastern shores.
Greece and Turkey should be brought into the North Atlantic treaty immediately,” the Governor said. “Than we should settle other questions. Will we move into war if the Red Czar arcades Iran. If not, will we let him take all of Iran’s oil and than take Iraq and Israel and then perhaps march down into Saudi Arabia? Will we allow that crucial oil supply to fall into Russia’s lands? Or would we bomb it out? Nobody knows, It is a woman and dictators move into recesses.”
Pointing out that there is the danger that the Eastern Mediterranean may become a “Red Sea,” Governor Newsy declared: “Let us stop handing armies and nations over to the Russians. The only way to stop it is to draw the line. All the world known what nations we will defend for sure and as a result no attack has been made on a single one of them. Now let us go the rest of the way. We should say where we stand as to the rest of the world. Let there be no more blundering into little wars or his were. The United States with here allies should make clear their common purpose.”
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