Mobil Denies Compliance With Worldwide
Boycott of Israel Goods; Libya 'Special Case'
NEW YORK (JTA) — The chief
executive of the Mobil Oil Corp.
has vigorously denied'a report that
appeared in Time magazine Feb.
1 implying that Mobil Oil was
complying with a "world-wide boy-
cott of Israeli products."
Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman
of the board of the giant oil com-
pany, made the denial in a letter
to Hedley Donovan, editor-in-chief
of Time. A copy of the letter was
delivered to the offices of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
A spokesman for Time told the
JTA that they could not say if or
when Time would publish Warn-
er's letter or whether Donovan
would reply to the Mobil chair-
man.
The Time article in question
said: "Part of the price of doing
business with the Arab world is
that many oil companies for
more than two decades have
quietly complied with a world-
wide boycott of Israeli pro-
ducts."
The Time report stemmed from
a letter by the Mobil Shipping Co.
of London, a British subsidiary of
Mobil Oil, advising British ship
chandlers not to supply its tank-
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He said that to avoid the penal-
ties, the Mobil marine subsidiairy
in London sent the letter to ship
LONDON (JTA)—The adminis- chandlers. "The wording of the
trative council of the Jewish Colo- letter was unfortunate. As a re-
nization Association (JCA) ap- sult, it has been subjected to in-
proved a 1971 budget that contin- terpretations which do not con-
ues aid to the Jewish community form with Mobil's intent. When
remnants in Morocco and Tunisia. the letter came to our -attention
The budget also includes the in New York, it was immediately
customary support for such organ- superseded," the Mobil board
izations as the World ORT Union, chairman wrote.
the Alliance Israelite Universelle,
Mobil in London apologized for
and the scholarship fund for agri-
the letter which aroused the ire
cultural students in Israel; and
of Jewish and pro-Israel circles.
provides aid to some 50 Israeli
A spokesman for Mobil Oil and
settlements.
Mobil Shipping explained to the
The JCA's 1971 projects in-
clude construction and imple-
mentation of the Mlkveh, the
Israeli argicultral school, and
three dormitories for 225 stu-
dents; aid to the Arava agri-
cultural laboratory and the
Rehovot computer and floricul-
ture labs, all part of the Hebrew
University; the plant-genetics
section of the Weizmann Insti-
tute; poultry-farming and vege-
table-seeding programs in the
Galilee bills; the relocation of
emigrants in other countries;
and housing funds in Canada,
Australia, France, Belguim and
Brazil.
The JCA will extend the agri-
cultural scope and economic con-
solidation of 13 moshavim and five
kibutzim in the Galilee, as well as
ameliorating, leveling, de-stoning,
terracing and irrigating of hither-
to unproductive land.
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ers bound for Libyan ports with U.S. government; we do not com-
products the Libyans might deem ply with a worldwide boycott of
to be "of Israeli or Jewish origin." Israeli goods, and never have."
Time reported that some of the He said this policy of Mobil was
ships' stores involved Swedish repeatedly stated to the Time re-
matches and Trinidad beer, whose searcher who contacted Mobil
trademark resembled a Star of spokesmen.
David.
Warner's letter went on to note
Warner wrote to Time: "Mobil that "Mobil and many other oil
observes only those boycotts which companies have been fined re-
are the expressed policy of the peatedly for carrying items, even
as ships' stores, which Libya con-
sidered of Israeli origin."
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS,
JTA in London that the offend-
ing letter had been issued by a
junior employe of Mobil Marine
Services, one of their subsidi-
aries headquartered in Bermuda.
He said Mobil considered it "ill
advised and unnecessary" and
withdrew it.
He said a revised letter was sub-
sequently sent to ship chandlers
advising them of the necessity of
shins to obey the rules and regu-
lations prevailing at their ports of
call in foreign countries.
Warner made the same point in
his letter to Time. He said it must
be understood that Libya and ev-
ery other country "has the sover-
eign right to prohibit entry of any
product."
According to Warner, the con-
troversy generated by the Time
article raised a broader issue.
"That is, when a company does
business in a particular country it
either must conform to the laws
of that country or it must cease
doing business in that country."
The Mobil board chairman said
that if U.S. and British firms with-
drew from doing business in
Libya, their act "would have se-
vere repercussions not only in the
Middle East, but throughout the
West and the less-developed coun-
tries of the Third World ... Aside
from the potentially economic con-
sequences to the free world, it
would massively increase Soviet
Dower in the Middle East itself,"
Warner wrote.
On another boycott front, the
Jewish War Veterans of the
U.S.A. has announced it will
conduct an educational cam-
paign against the purchase of
Toyota and Datsun cars and pa-
tronage of Japan Air Lines for
their cooperating with the Arab
boycott of Israeli goods and
services.
In a memorandum to all post
and department commanders,
signed by JWV National Com-
mander Albert Schlossberg, the
organization pointed out that ne-
gotiations and discussions with the
firms in question had received
little satisfaction.
Commander Schlossberg pointed
out that "certainly the Japanese
auto producers are especially sen-
sitive to changes in American de-
mands for their products. They
must learn that Americans do not
want to be a party to Arab eco-
nomic blackmail and will look to
the competition for products manu-
factured in a more amenable at-
mosphere."
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