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...London restaurants last week the buzz of war talk had been replaced by: "I say, it is a frightful mess-Lend-Lease. ... If Roosevelt hadn't died. . . . May as well face it ... they want to lend, and they bloody well won't buy. . . . I'm ready to go but I can't get materials...
Britain, in spite of Lend-Lease, is ?20 billion worse off than before the war. She does not want to add to her staggering debt, because she does not see how she can pay interest. Yet she must have dollars if she is ever to emerge from the refuge of blocked sterling balances which restrict her own and the world's trade. At present Britain, with a reserve of only ?2 billion, cannot pay the ?12 to ?16 billion she owes India, Egypt and the other sterling countries...
Jimmy Byrnes thus cleared the air for conversations in Washington this week with British envoys (Ambassador Halifax and Lord Keynes) seeking credits or other means to take up where Lend-Lease left...
Next day Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes undertook to correct the erroneous headlines. Patiently he explained that the U.S. is not seeking payment in dollars-"which will not be available to our debtors." But this did not mean, he said, that there are no Lend-Lease settlements to be negotiated; there was "no justification" for assuming that the debts were to be cancelled...
Once ashore in that "queer, drear, roasting land," the 30,000 G.I.s of the P.G.C. (which meant Persian Gulf Command in Washington, and People Going Crazy in Iran) pulled off one of the great jobs of the war, the Lend-Lease supplying of the Red Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential...