Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, before Churchill agreed to Article VII of the 1942 Lend-Lease agreement (which called for an end to trade discrimination and reduction of tariff barriers), he obtained from Mr. Roosevelt specific assurance that the text "no more committed [Britain] to the abolition of imperial preference than the American Government was committed to the abolition of their protective tariffs...
...balance, the deal showed a nice profit for Canada. The airfields were her own property, ready for use in the postwar air age. Technically, she was still under no obligation for Lend-Lease. And Canada was back on her own financial feet...
Field Trip. On a mild April Monday, as he had done each week of spring, General Bradley left his London headquarters to visit his troops in the field. Promptly at 8:15, having breakfasted on Lend-Lease powdered eggs, he stepped out of the officers' mess and into a waiting Cadillac. Sergeant Alex Stout, a black-haired young man who used to jeep the General around Sicily, sent the long black car purring southward...
Many Britons shared his conviction. Like him, they feared that the debt burden would bring on a U.S.-British trade war, create enmity instead of collaboration. Of Lend-Lease, Bruce said: "How can you frame a balance sheet? . . . There is no currency you can enter in it that represents human lives, human suffering, human sacrifices...
...Lend-Lease. "In Britain, Lend-Lease and reverse Lend-Lease are so mixed up that I doubt whether there will ever be any complete accounting. As a postwar plan, Lend-Lease is most unsatisfactory. We should be making plans now for arrangements to supersede Lend-Lease even before the fighting stops...