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Cash-&-Carry is still theoretically in force, but the Lend-Lease Act has practically nullified it: war supplies can be sold or lent by the U.S. Government to any nation whose defense the President considers necessary to U.S. defense...
...south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
Last week it was reported from Vichy that Edouard Herriot was heading a secretly-meeting rump parliament of 100 French Senators and Deputies opposed to the Nazi-powered Vichy regime. Credence was speedily lent this report by Vichy decree. Senators and Deputies were ordered to stop meeting officially or semiofficially in Vichy, to move their offices to Châtel-guyon-les-Bains, a tiny spa 45 miles from Vichy...
...best to comply. But Sir Edward Peacock, a Norman man sent here to dispose of British investments in privately owned U.S. corporations, has enlisted Jesse Jones's aid. Along with Sir Frederick Phillips, Under Secretary of the British Treasury, Sir Edward arranged the deal in which Jones lent British-American Tobacco Co. $40,000,000 on its U.S. subsidiary (Brown & Williamson), thus averted outright sale. If the Norman-Peacock-Phillips axis is broken, Secretary Morgenthau may still win his fight with Jones...
Well, Charles, friends have been very good to us, and one kind friend who has evacuated has lent us her home while she is away. It's very comfortable and we were very lucky to get here...