Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said silver-haired Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. this week as he submitted to Congress the first fully documented overall report on Lend-Lease operations. In the 21 months since its beginning in March 1941, the report showed, the total value of Lend-Lease expenditures in goods and services to 30 of the United Nations was $8,233,000,000-or 13% of total U.S. war expenditures. The stream of goods to the U.S. Allies had increased month by month until October 1942, when it dropped off-presumably because of the U.S. offensive in North Africa...
Reciprocity. The report was obviously submitted in anticipation of a searching Congressional inquiry of Lend-Lease agreements-which must be renewed next June-and Administrator Stettinius took considerable pains to show that Lend-Lease works both ways. Said...
Looking at the critical year to come, Administrator Stettinius said the most pressing Lend-Lease problem for 1943 would be delivery of food to Russia, where "millions are threatened with starvation." He conceded that until now only a small part of the weapons used against the Axis had been of American make; he promised that in 1943 the tide of planes and tanks would turn into a torrent...
Flow & Future. Conferring at the White House, Franklin Roosevelt and Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius were mightily pleased. The flow of arms had only begun: their next report would be better than this one, and the one after that even better...
Appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Major General Charles Macon Wesson (ret.), ex-Chief of Ordnance...