Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1951 — Page 7

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By CLYDE FARNSWORTH Soripps-Howard Staff Writer |

TEHRAN, Sept. 13-—What will it mean if Iran goes Communist? Not much immediately to the western world, unless a third! world war starts. Another nation iron-curtain, and one that/ Middle East and the Persian Gulf, But little other immediate mean-

ing.

C o m munists would be able to step up infiltration. of Iraq and other countries

now more or less

Turkey would feel outflanked,

of Russian garrisons, air bases and possibly nests for submarine activity in the Persian Gulf and beyond, against British Empire shipping lanes and other lines of communication.

~_ Hostile occupation of Iran,|] itself relatively valueless as a

source of manpower or material, also would sever or threaten

world airways through the Med-| }

fterranean area and along the southern rim of Asia. « World War II proved the great feasibility of trans-Iranian supply movements by road and rallway through considerable mountainous and desert ¢Suntry, between the Persian Gulf and the Volga basin. The route, however, was free of attack, save at the Russian end. Even- if Iranian oilfields and the Abadan refinery fell intact into Russian hands—an unlikely prospect save by peaceful conquest—Russia could profit little from them immediately.

Valuable as Base

They would, however, be part of an enviabld, base of strategic world power ahd economic control after Communist victory. Iran's and other Middle East oil reserves comprise nearly half the world's known treasure of petroleum. .

In wartime, overland transportation of oil northward to Russia would deliver only a relative trickle if any. Experts doubt that even in the long run it would be

ward across the Iranian plateau and mountain ranges to the Casplan or through the Caucasus to Russia.

Prefabrication of submarines and their overland movement, broken down, from north to south, is something else.

So would be the whole problem of maintaining Russian forces in Iranian bases. Lines of communication studied and developed during the last war could be turned about and worked in “the opposite direction for Russia. Even a vast heritage of permanent construction along the. former Russiad supply line in Iran

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could be put to use in a simple reversal of its direction.

West Would Lose Oil

Military strategy not only calls for capture of enemy potential and position but also for denial it to the foe. Iranian oil automatically be denied to the west if Iran goes Communist, even without armed Russian attack.

In event of wartime occupa~ Iran would be

moves to stamp out British and American - installations in Iraq, Kuweit and Saudi-Arabia.

Given a sound economy and a

strong non-Communist govern-

ment here, fifth column betrayal of Iran would be difficult and the

Soviets would think twice before forcefully trying to make this country a prewar military base. A forceful Russian move almost certainly would precipitate armed reaction from the West,

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Thus Russia's preferred strategy would seem to be to win Iran without firing a- shot, if at all

There's growing concern Treflected here in a more vocal opposition in press and Parliament Government's dogged position on oil has crossed her up with two great western powers to : satisfaction of Russia and Iran’s Communist party.

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Iran Could Be Vital for Communists-West Would Lose Oil Stocks

Iran's own Communists are not numerically strong but are disciplined and well organized, with

an elaborate underground leader-

ship. The party has joined in to promote oil nationalization as a first step toward peaceful or violent political revolution. The Communists welcome the

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Child Killed. in- Fall + From Speeding Truck

ENDERLIN, N.D. Sept. 13 (UP)—Five-year-old Ardis Gross was killed near here yesterday when the door of her father's

(truck opened unexpectedly and

she tumbled beneath . the rear wheels. ” ; The victim was the daughter of

bility to save Iran from commu-|Mr. and Mrs. Alf Gross, who farm

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