Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...Problems. Many problems fogged the air around Litvinoff's desk. Russian generals, going over Lend-Lease specifications, wondered why a big rich country could not send more aid, Why it had to wait for production lines to start moving. Members of the Russian mission, remembering how long and how thoroughly their own country had been stripped down for war, blinked at U.S. shop windows still full of metal automobile gadgets...
...side (although a February FORTUNE poll showed only 4.4% of citizens against Lend-Lease to Russia) were the old suspicions, the old fear (now a tool of Axis propaganda) that a victorious Russia would be as bad as or worse than a Fascist Europe...
These were not official words. Belligerent Lord Beaverbrook still has a war title (British-American Lend-Lease Coordinator), but he is no longer in Churchill's War Cabinet. He probably expected his words to irritate some British military men. Familiar with the difficulties in the way of a land offensive now in western Europe, he was apparently willing to try political pressure to get the difficulties overridden. He evidently did not consider the R.A.F.'s enormously increased air offensive a sufficient substitute for action on land...
DEATH ON THE AISLE-Frances and Richard Lockridge-Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor...