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...Lend-Lease Coordinator in London in the early war years he had won the respect and confidence of the British people. As Ambassador he has been altogether successful with British officialdom and public, has done a first-rate job of restoring embassy staff morale (which went to pot under his predecessor, aloof John G. Winant); has shown an intelligent, sympathetic, effective understanding of Britain's position and policy...
Personally, my three-year-old daughter can't afford to lend me $75. And neither can her daughter...
...prevent punitive action by U.N. But the tone of the U.S. protest was proof of U.S. determination to take a stand in eastern Europe. If U.N. faltered, the U.S. would need to provide its own sanctions. Short of force the U.S., which shipped Yugoslavia $32,000,000 in wartime Lend-Lease, could hold up its share of the $100,000,000 in UNRRA supplies still undelivered to the Yugoslavs...
...time he was 31, Ed Stettinius, son of a Morgan partner, was a vice president of General Motors; at 37, board chairman of U.S. Steel; then, successively in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, chairman of the War Resources Board, priorities director of 0PM, Lend-Lease Administrator, Under Secretary of State, then Secretary of State...
...Afghanistan, desperately in need of outside supplies, was finally made eligible for Lend-Lease. A U.S. official went to Kabul to ask the Afghans what they needed most. They said "everything." He suggested medicines as a starter. The Afghan committee withdrew with a drug catalogue, returned next day with a list that began: " 1) Medicine to ease a weary heart...