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...Congress. The President still wants it made clear that the U.S. will avoid debts in the World War I sense of the word. But this country would expect its allies to return the aid in goods and services "so far as they possibly could." Lend-Lease is still lent, still leased...
None was more astonished by the news than Ruth, who soon sued for the return of $125,000 she claimed she had lent Alfred de Marigny. Nancy knew much of this, but she knew, too, that Freddy was intriguing, mysterious, dashing, and in love with her for herself, not for her money. To prove it, he offered to return the $10,000 Lady Oakes gave them, said he preferred to support his bride himself...
...honorary doctor's degree at Fordham University.) His enthusiasm was rewarded: the U.S. sent him $1,000,000 worth of airplanes, trucks, jeeps and signal equipment; the U.S. is spending an estimated $11,000,000 in Paraguay, where the annual budget is $6,642,000. Brazil has lent Paraguay money for improvements, given the land-locked country use of Santos as a free port. And Argentina, which always considered Paraguay a satellite province, has come to life, canceling the 1870 war debt and increasing imports to offset U.S. and Brazilian influence...
...people were told: "The Allies have no intention whatever of giving peace to our country." The Army was told: "Your duty includes the 'disciplining of the civilian population.' " High Churchmen lent their voices to the Palace's. Said Cardinal Fossati, Archbishop of Turin: "It is a crime ... to interfere with [Marshal Badoglio's] work in any way, even by criticism...
...long waits for observation planes from the Air Corps. One West Pointer, Major (now Colonel) William Wallace Ford, a private flyer for seven years, knew the solution: light planes attached to each field-artillery .battalion. Wallie Ford made little headway until the next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed. So was Lieut. Colonel Mark Clark. Flying observation posts soon were standard in the field artillery, ten to each infantry division, eight to each of armor...