Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways: nor ... to hand over our colonies in lieu of Lend-Lease...
Answer to Frankness. The Russian reaction was prompt and compliant. Izvestia printed recapitulations of U.S. aid to Russia recently made by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward Stettinius Jr. A Moscow radio announcer broadcast similar material at a convenient speed for stenographers to take it down-a tip-off that provincial papers were expected to print it. Ambassador Litvinoff in Washington said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully aware of its extent...
...with the Nye investigation ringing throughout the land, he might have been written off as the international banker who got the U.S. into. World War I. But with U.S. industry, which Morgan & Co. had helped build to greatness, contributing on an unparalleled scale to another war, with Lend-Lease giving to Britain more aid than the bankers 29 years ago dreamed possible, his place in history had changed...
...Morgan Lend-Lease. That loyalty served the U.S. well. In 1913 Morgan the elder died in Rome, and Jack Morgan took over. There was never any question where the Morgan sympathies lay. Testifying long afterwards before a Government committee, Mr. Morgan said: "We find it quite impossible to be impartial as between right and wrong...
...William Jennings Bryan turned the idea down cold. By 1915, as the gold stocks of the Allies ran low, the Administration changed heart: Robert Lansing replaced Bryan, and the Morgan firm floated a $500,000,000 loan for both France and Britain, an act roughly corresponding to the first Lend-Lease aid in this...