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...former strength and prestige, cannot yet hope to be classed as a major world power, but that the U.S. will do all it can to help her reach this state. Significantly, despite the "snub," General de Gaulle last week received a tentative U.S. program for $2½ billion in Lend-Lease to France...
Realistic Leo T. Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator, was good & tired of loose talk about the U.S. Lend-Lease program. Last week he reported to Congress that Lend-Lease aid had reached the fabulous total of $35,382,000,000.* At the same time, he tartly observed that the effect of Lend-Lease on civilian goods shortages at home "has been greatly overstated in numerous false rumors." To scotch the rumors, he stated a few facts...
...role of the U.S. in international affairs. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce with a fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above Rio, for a chat on his way to the Hemisphere conference...
...Europe. Last week they learned how much the U.S. production machine had contributed to the Eastern Front. On some fronts more than half of the Russian Army's supplies move forward in U.S. trucks. From October 1941 to December 1944 the U.S. had shipped to Russia, via Lend-Lease...
What will happen at war's end to the vast amount of industrial equipment which the U.S. has Lend-Leased abroad? The United Kingdom gave a partial answer last week. She paid $31,500,000 to Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration for the 58,000 machine tools which the U.S. has shipped Britain under Lend-Lease-the first nation to buy such material outright...