Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago the eleventh quarterly report on Lend-Lease went to Congress along with a letter over the President's name which bluntly stated that the U.S. did not want repayment of Lend-Lease debts from the United Nations. The quote: "Victory and a secure peace are the only coin in which we can be repaid." Promptly many a U.S. citizen felt acute tax pains, many a U.S. newspaper bellowed loud (TIME, Sept...
...corrected letter went to Congress. The President still wants it made clear that the U.S. will avoid debts in the World War I sense of the word. But this country would expect its allies to return the aid in goods and services "so far as they possibly could." Lend-Lease is still lent, still leased...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...naval forces take part in measures designed for the defense of the hemisphere. . . . Since Argentine armed forces will not . . . be used . . . to forward . . . the security of the New World . . . it would be impossible for the President of the United States to . . . furnish arms and munitions to Argentina under the Lend-Lease...
...festers, namely Frankie Newton, Al Morgan, Arthur Karle, and Pinky Black at their third concert, Saturday. The bang-up affair is being held in the Lowell House Dining Hall, and as usual, any college musicians who care to play may drop around between 2 and 5 o'clock and lend their talents...