Word: lende
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...Lend-Lease. It was not only Guatemala's President Arevalo who was prodding Tacho Somoza last week. There was also a variegated group of political exiles, self-appointed enemies of tropical dictators, who called themselves the Caribbean Legion. Last spring they had flown at least 21 planeloads of arms from Guatemala right around Tacho's Chinese wall and landed them in Costa Rica-where they helped General José Figueres install a government that bears no love for Somoza...
...defense centered in Washington. Very quietly, Washington has started work on a kind of military Marshall Plan; the U.S. Army has drafted a preliminary list of what the Western European alliance will need in the way of military supplies (and what it can produce itself). Request for Lend-Lease legislation would be submitted early next year to Congress and the nation...
...American Veteran Committee last night pledged its entire Evans Carlson Memorail Fund of $850 to a War Memorial Activities Center, and urged others to lend financial as well as moral support" to the rejected proposal...
...George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust, has everything he could wish for except his soul. Hearing of the prospective revolution, he is unwilling to lend his support until he can be assured that the blow will come after his Master has left the city for the summer. But when at the last minute the Captain decides to stay, George is compelled to betray the plot. The militia are called, and Denmark Vesey, forsaken...
...Schlesinger the most serious problem now is the increasing pressure in Europe for rearmament with its concomitant diversion of recovery funds. "The only way out," he asserted, "will be by an iron-clad military commitment to the Marshal Plan countries and the immediate resumption of military lend-lease...