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Coin of Victory? The Financial News discussed comparative British and American sacrifices and expenditures during the war, and reached the terse conclusion: "The only coin in which America can expect to be repaid for Lend-Lease is victory...
...Lend-Lease went to Congress along with a letter over the President's name which bluntly stated that the U.S. did not want repayment of Lend-Lease debts from the United Nations. The quote: "Victory and a secure peace are the only coin in which we can be repaid." Promptly many a U.S. citizen felt acute tax pains, many a U.S. newspaper bellowed loud (TIME, Sept...
...nearly back to normal. Always a grain-exporting region, its grain surplus this year may run as high as 500,000 tons. The French in Tunisia are stockpiling some of it to help feed France if & when. Some of the money the U.S. spent has already been repaid in North African cork, phosphates, iron ore and olive oil. The French have also paid $25,000,000 in cash...
Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe." King George VI of England suggested that the day of defeat was past and gone. "The debt of Dunkirk is repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
...those of amusement; it has no particular message, nor do artistic criteria appear to enter in save to make the bits of humor more appetizing. But the picture is such a marvellous vehicle of entertainment that, especially during this particular period of the season, the tariff is more than repaid...