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Manhattan's obliging Congressman Sol Bloom quietly dropped a bill into the hopper. Three days later, before Chairman Bloom's friendly Foreign Affairs Committee, Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. spent three pleasant hours citing Lend-Lease accomplishments (TIME, Feb. 1), tracing the flow of U.S. goods on a map which made committee members proud. For the few challenges hurled his way, Ed Stettinius had ready answers...
...true that Lend-Lease sent goods to Bermuda against Bermuda's wishes, shipped beer and powder puffs as war supplies? Wrong, said Mr. Stettinius: the U.S. has no Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
...true that Britain sold Lend-Lease food to its citizens, thus made "a profit out of something that we paid for originally?" Partly, said Mr. Stettinius, for Britain had to distribute Lend-Lease food through the same channels as other food. But the money went to buy supplies for U.S. troops stationed in England...
...ship farm machinery to England, when supplies were desperately short here? Because, said Mr. Stettinius, every piece of machinery produced eight times its volume in food-and shipping space was precious...
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...