Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...
...Office of War Information last week quietly announced the first U.S. campaign of economic warfare designed to win conquered natives to the United Nations' cause. Over $5,000,000 of civilian goods, said OWI, had been purchased with Lend-Lease funds for shipment to French North Africa. Some 6,000 tons of sugar, kerosene, green tea, matches, newsprint, cheap textiles and clothing, medicines, etc., are already en route, 7,000 tons more are awaiting shipment and "additional civilian supplies of many times that value" are to be purchased soon...
...been anything but brilliant. Though a good many people have known of the North African campaign for months, last week none of the overlapping Washington agencies knew how to handle civilian-goods shipments to Morocco, Algeria, etc. There was a four-cornered wrangle between 1) Lend-Lease (which pays for the goods), 2) the Board of Economic Warfare (which distrusts Darlan and all his works), 3) the State Department (which in the main is willing to play along with ex-Vichy officials but is not prepared for the African job), 4) the Army & Navy (the only people on the spot...
Last week the Lend-Leasers-to-Africa made a big point of the acknowledged fact that the shipments now under way or contemplated are only a drop in the bucket compared to total U.S. supplies. But in Manhattan the retail trade was buzzing with known purchases of 150,000 pairs of $4 & $5 men's and women's shoes and rumored purchases of 3,000,000 yards of rayon. In terms of current and threatened civilian shortages in the U.S., such sudden subtractions from the market are not a drop in the bucket-if for no other reason...
Captain Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, merely said, as he prepared to return to London, that he had taken from the White House "a more complete agreement" on production and Lend-Lease. Actually, the new understanding meant that U.S. strategy, which had been knocked into a cocked hat at Pearl Harbor, could now look far into the future...