Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Atcheson, as Chargé d'Affaires in Hurley's absence from Chungking, had recommended a policy of furnishing Lend-Lease arms to the Chinese Communists. That, said Pat Hurley, would have made the collapse of Chiang's Government inevitable...
...continuing headache on Lend-Lease to vex future relations. The U.S. canceled almost $25 billion, advanced some $650,000,000 for tidying up the rest...
...Russia through Iran an essential of Allied victory, the Allies took a long, hard look at old Reza Shah Pahlevi. They suspected some of his hangers-on of intrigue with Germany and, in any case, Reza Shah was too strong a character to be left athwart the Lend-Lease supply line to the U.S.S.R. So he was deposed, last year in far away Johannesburg died, full of bitter memories. Mohamed Reza, the wavy-haired young playboy, ascended the jeweled Peacock Throne of Iran...
...help. Many of the abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran and other deficient areas. In the capital there were food riots that lasted three days. Inflation soared. By last year the cost of living had risen tenfold, preparing the way for Communist agitation...
Since Sept. 2, when the end of the Pacific war closed out mutual aid (Canadian Lend-Lease), London had piled more & more restrictions on imports from Canada. Almost the whole range of processed articles, from such job-producing industries as farm machinery, rolled oats, newsprint, office machines and household appliances, were barred from the British market...