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Answer to Frankness. The Russian reaction was prompt and compliant. Izvestia printed recapitulations of U.S. aid to Russia recently made by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward Stettinius Jr. A Moscow radio announcer broadcast similar material at a convenient speed for stenographers to take it down-a tip-off that provincial papers were expected to print it. Ambassador Litvinoff in Washington said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully aware of its extent...
...plan would reduce the U.S. almost to the low British level of meat consumption. The British are allowed 16 oz. of meat and 4 oz. of bacon and ham, plus 4 oz. of cheese a week. But a report by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius punctured the theory that the U.S. was short of meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments...
...gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius was in, but not Henry Kaiser. Still in: Adolf Hitler; still out: Premier Hideki Tojo...
...Lend-Lease pay hotel bills for foreign missions? To this old rumor, usually accompanied by whispers of air-conditioned suites and champagne parties, Mr. Stettinius had a quick answer...
...When Ed Stettinius left the stand, his trim dark suit was unwrinkled, his sober maroon tie unrumpled, his white handkerchief still in place in his breast pocket. A new Gallup poll showed 82% of U.S. citizens in favor of Lend-Lease, only 9% opposed. Renewal by Congress appeared to be a mere formality. Not until the Administration's reciprocal trade treaties come up for renewal would its "international" policies be challenged by Congress...