Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final figure on Lend-Lease was in. President Truman reported to Congress last week that in four and a half years the U.S. had supplied its allies with $46,040,000,000 in weapons, civilian goods and services. Great Britain got 69%, Russia, 25%; the rest went to 44 countries...
There was a time when Italy led the world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...train, to negotiate a coordinated administration of northern and southern Korea, as directed by the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Moscow Conference. The U.S. commander in Korea, grim-jawed Lieut. General John R. Hodge, was doubtless impressed by the Russians' three sleeping cars, five flatcars to carry their Lend-Lease limousines, a radio communications car. He was certainly impressed by the three cars of coal-the first, except for three cars shipped to the Russian consulate, to be sent from northern Korea since the occupation...
...their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan $2 billion, give her an immigration quota and "most favored nation" status, reduce U.S. naval strength in the Pacific. The memo was passed on to Secretary of State Hull who, at about the same time, dictated a statement that too many misguided people were dabbling in U.S. foreign relations...
...stake in Southeast Asia. Its Lend-Lease weapons were being used against patriots. The American "reservoir of good will," which Wendell Willkie found among Asia's masses, was drying up. Cried the bitter Indian press: "American sympathy for freedom is merely platonic. ... At least the Japanese sought to set up some form of self-government in every Asiatic country. All you white men seek to do is reinstall prewar exploiters, imperialists, and burra sahibs [great masters...