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...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
...exported $2,166 million worth of food-more than in any previous year except hunger-ridden 1919. Most of this ($1,354 million) was paid for, cash on the barrelhead. But $628 million was the U.S. contribution to UNRRA stocks, and $184 million went through Lend-Lease...
...with Lend-Lease dead and UNRRA dying, Congress must decide how much food to give (or sell on dubious credit) to countries which have no dollars to pay for it. The Administration wanted $350 million for Italy, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Greece† and China. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee rewrote the bill, to give the U.S. a foreign relief policy just as tough as its general foreign policy...
...that every University member and Cambridge resident may have the priceless aid of this liquid life saver when it is needed most, PBH has once more started solicitations for donors to lend the use of a vein for a little while when the Red Cross mobile unit pays a visit on April 10, 11, and 12. The nurses with the needles don't detract from anyone's pocketbook, and the operations leave no harmful after-effects. A few minutes of quiet blood-letting on the part of 300 students and teachers will satisfy the University's responsibility toward meeting...
Some observers described Harry Truman's new policy as another Lend-Lease. It was far more than that. It was a projection of the advice which George Marshall gave the nation at the end of World War II. He spoke then as Chief of Staff, and in military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Other military leaders paraphrased it: "U.S. policy is now to wage the peace around the world...