Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maine's Ralph Owen Brewster was most concerned about Lend-Lease, charged that it was being mismanaged, cited as an example of mismanagement the fact that Australia got 30,000 new trucks for civilian use as compared to 15,000 for the U.S., said he would ask the Truman Committee to investigate...
...Friend Winston Churchill wants Dominion leaders (as the London Times said) "to withdraw themselves temporarily from national administration and bring their contribution to the common pool." Included in the "common pool" of Empire are such matters as postwar air power, midwar diplomacy, trade relations, soldiers' postwar employment, Lend-Lease settlement...
...Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction of a maze of State Department activities which spread around the globe. The new Under Secretary started with a great advantage. Even Columnist Drew Pearson, roundly denounced by Franklin...
Because of the great industrial demand, Congress three months ago authorized the Treasury to sell or lend war industry part of its silver hoard not needed for currency backing - under WPB restrictions. The Treasury has released 700,000,000 oz., a half-billion dollars' worth...
Clearly the value of Lend-Lease to Russia, the future of AMG and the shape and texture of postwar Germany would have places on the Moscow agenda. Said Eden in the House of Commons: "We must be frank with one another. . . . There can be no cooperation if it is not based on confidence. . . . Confidence cannot be created by one side alone." Urbanely he intimated that the Russians were not the easiest people in the world to deal with...