Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is Lend-Lease? Is it a one-way charity through which the U.S. has bailed out the British Empire? Are its books the record of a war debt? Can they ever be balanced without the suspicions and recriminations that followed World War I? These questions could no longer be ignored...
...side of the Atlantic, suspicions had grown steadily. And since Administration statements stressed the out flow, and soft-pedaled British "Lend-Lease in reverse," the suspicions had a base. Further, every time rationing twisted the screw again, anti-British propagandists got a new audience for their claim that Lend-Lease has been a giant British steal...
...Britain there was a rising feeling that it was about time to put the facts on the record. As far back as early summer, the British Government wanted to issue a White Paper, to prove to its own citizens and the world that Lend-Lease was a two-way street whose busy traffic had only been hinted at. The White Paper was ready for publication last August. But the U.S. Government, notably timorous Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.. talked the British out of it. Some of the Administration objections were technical. and sound; but the main objection to endorsing...
Grey Paper. Last week a revised version of the White Paper, written by stiff, hard-collared Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was finally released in London. At the same time, Franklin Roosevelt made a full report to Congress on the extent of Britain's reverse Lend-Lease. Both documents were soggy with timidity, nervous with embarrassment, befogged with evasions...
...Follette, a lieutenant colonel in General MacArthur's personal entourage. Mailing point: MacArthur's headquarters; contents: enthusiasm about the Chicago Tribune's enthusiasm for MacArthur in 1944. Most notable sentence: "Perhaps some day some of us here can put our oar in back home and lend a helping hand...