Evening star., 1941-09-15
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Fy the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt reported to
Congress today that actual ex-
ports of American war supplies
to nations fighting the Axis, un-
der the lease-lend program, had
totaled s19O,447,670 up to Au-
gust 81.
OF this amount, the report said
s1l0,6O6,550 was for agricultural
commodities. The President asserted
however, that shipments were still
being made on orders placed priol
to passage of the Lease-Lend Act
and for which Britain is paying
cash.
This figure represented expendi'
lures for weapons and other sup
plies actually sent abroad. But, the
President added, defense articles
transferred, including some still
waiting to be shipped, amounted tc
an additional s55 5,946.70l, while va
rious services. such as repairing
naval vessels, added up to still an
other figure of s78,169,377.
Thus in services, transfers Of title
and actual exports. the United States
has provided S324,563,748 in assist
ance to the foes of the Axis.
Furthermore. expenditures for ar
ticles for services not yet finished
added up to approximately sl62 ,000,-
900, Mr.. Roosevelt said.
Thus, the President figured in his
report that through the month OF
August the total dollar value of de-
fense articles transferred and de-
fense services rendered, plus expen-
ditures for other lease-lend pur-
poses" amounted to approximately
s4s7 900.
PLANES. tanks. guns and ships
have begun to flow from our fac
tories and yards" he said, "and the
flow will accelerate from day to day
until the stream becomes a river
and the river a torrent, engulfing
this totalitarian tyranny which seeks
to dominate the world"
New Lease-Lend Fund.
While the report-his second on
operations of the lease-lend pro-
gram-was on It's way to Congress
Mr.. Roosevelt was conferring with
his budget director on a second
lease-lend fund
The report showed that upward
of a dozen nations have been get
ting some measure of lease-lend
assistance, but the bulk has gone
to Great Britain.
The list includes China, Poland,
Greece, Yugoslavia. Norway, Bel
gium. The Netherlands, including
the Dutch East Indies, and Brazil
and the Dominican Republic. Chile
and Cuba also have asked for help
and are in line for acquisitions. In
other quarters, it was learned that
aid also was being given the Free
French government through Great
Britain.
Means of United States Defense.
Declaring that aid is not an act
OF charity or sympathy. but means
of defending America, the Chief
Executive added:
I'VE offer it because we know that
piecemeal resistance to aggression is
doomed to failure: because the ruth
less war machine which now be-
strides the continent of Europe can
be combatted only by the combined
efforts of all free peoples and at all
strategic points where the aggressor
may strike"
He said that America must offer
mot only a shield but a sword" the
tools of final and total victory to
those peoples who are gallantly
shedding their blood in the front
lines of this struggle
The people of the United States
know" Mr.. Roosevelt said. that we
cannot live in world dominated
by Hitlerism. They realize that
there can be no real peace, no secure
freedom until we have destroyed the
evil forces which seek to work us
woe"
Six Billion All0Cated.
OF the original ST 900 900 900 lease
lend appropriation, the President
told Congress, s6281 .237 ,421 has been
allocated, 1855, ,587 1895 has been put
under contract and 1888 S,912,115 has
been spent. Congress also au-
thorized the President to turn over
another 81, 800, 900 900 in war supplies
already on hand for purposes Of the
aid program, and the President said
se7 1908, ,722 of this sum has been
transferred.
The actual transfers to foreign
governments were placed at $246,-
394,372. compared with $75 1902, ,42e
which the President reported to
Congress as of May 81. Therefore
transfers since his last report go
days ago came to $171,191.946.
The report said that SO per cent
OF the $50, ,447,670 of defense ex-
ports we're made in the past 80 days
And from June to the end of Au-
gust exports represented 98 per cent
Of transfers made.
This demonstrates, the report said
that lease-lend goods are being
transported and absorbed by ship
ping almost as rapidly as they are
being made available.
Including supplies which Britain
financed herself, the British Empire
has actually obtained approximately
(see LEASE-LEND, Page A-2D