Evening star., 1941-12-15
Lease-L Supplies
Must Continue, Says
President S Report
sl,2oo,ooo 900 Spent
In First Nine Months;
Nine Billion AIIocuted
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Reporting to Congress that lease
lend expenditures totaled $780,
100000 during the f1rst 270 days of
the programs operation, President
Roosevelt said today that the United
States must continue to supply
Britain, Russia, China and other
friendly nations with weapons from
the American arsenal of democ-
racy."
The third report to Congress on
lease-lend operations covering ac-
tivities up to December 11-three
days after the United States de-
clared war on Japan and the day of
declaration of war against Ger
many and Italy-stated:
"The task of lease-lend is supply
the millions of men who are resist
ing or stand ready to resist Axis ag-
gression with the tools to make that
resistance effective q.
Nine Billions Allocated.
"Only in America are there the
raw material resources, the pro-
ductive capacity and the manpower
to complete the job. There must
be guns and tanks and planes in
quantities beyond any production we
have yet accomplished or planned"
The report stated that between
March II, the date of the enact
ment of the Lease-Lend Act, and
December IL, $4,000, 100000 were al
located and that contracts for
$6,0O0,000,000 were let. Two lease
lend appropriation bills have set
aside s12,985 900, 600.
Goods exported under lease-lend
operations amount to S595 ,00O,0 900.
Non-exportable services under lease
lend include shipbuilding and ship
repair and the transfer of some
goods to lease-lend countries for
use in the United States, such as
equipment and supplies for airplane
pilot training programs"
The report contained a chart
showing the acceleration of the rate
Of lease-lend aid from month to
month, thus:
March, S18,000,O00: April, s4O,-
100000; May, S6O,0OO,OOO; June, $685.
100000; July, s134,OOO,OOO; August,
s150,000000; September, SPOT ,OOO,-
600; October, 1925 100000, and No.
vember, 100000.
The President, in setting forth
the administration lease-lend
policy as it will operate while we
are at war, declared:
Eve are now engaged in a total
war against group of Axis powers
led by Nazi Germany and bent on
world domination. Their strategy
is worldwide. Ours also must be
worldwide.
The worldwide strategy of the
Axis powers must be met with equal
strategy on the part of all the ma
t1ons who are Joined together in
resisting their aggression.
Hemisphere Aid Included.
Accordingly we must use the
weapons for the arsenal of the
democracies where they can be en-
ployed most effectively and that
means we must let Britain, Russia,
China and other nations, including
those of this hemisphere, use the
weapons from that arsenal so that
they can put them to most effective
use.
Too much is at stake in this great
est of all wars for us to neglect
people who are or may be attacked
by our common enemies"
The report disclosed that the
American Government is nego-
t1atlng with the nations receiving
lease-lend aid respecting the gen.
eral terms and conditions on which
lease-lend assistance is given.
The Soviet government has agreed
to reimburse this country in dollars
or materials over a 10-year period
to begin five years after the war is
over, the report revealed. The Sow
let Union has also agreed to expedite
sales of raw materials vital to our
defense.
Dutch Paying in Advance.
THE agreement with Great Brit
aln," the report said, will rest on
principles of common defense and
mutual assistance which have been
dominant in Anglo American rela-
tlonshipS since long before the en-
actment of the Lease-Lend Act.
The agreement now in process of
negotiation with Great Britain will
set forth the terms and conditions
under which lease-lend aid is being
rendered -. in view of the pending
discussion, a more detailed report
would not be advisable at this time" E"
The Dutch are paying the United
States in advance dollar for dollar
for the lease-lend articles supplied
them, the report said, and Iceland is
using dollar exchange made avail
able to that country by American
purchases of Iceland fish and oil.
The fish and fish oil purchased by
the United States will be transferred
to the British as defense aid" tn;
report declared.