Evening star., 1943-03-10
Russian Newspaper
Reprints Stettinius'
.Lease-Lend Article
StondIey's Charges
Not Published, However,
In Soviet Press
RY he Associated presS

BY me Associated Press
MOSCOW, March 1O.-Two days
after the statement by Admiral
William H. Standley, United
States Ambassador, that the Rus
sian people were not being prop
erly informed of American lease
lend aid to the Soviet Union, L.
vestia, government newspaper
printed on its back page today
an article supplied by the Rus
sian news agency Tass from New
York and based on an article by
Edward R. Stettinius, jr., Amer
lean lease-lend administrator, in
the American Magazine.
The statement was carried under
the headline: "Stettinius State
ment on American Food Supplies"
and represented by far the most in
elusive light thrown here thus far
on aid to the Soviet Union.
Izvestia has a circulation of about
100000
The articles was not carried in
Pravda, organ of the Communist
Party, or Red Star, organ of the
Red Army.
Ambassador Standley's statement
has not been published nor has a
recent Stettinius statement con-
cerning trucks, jeeps, motorcycles,
military tractors, rails and tele-
phones.
Food Shipments Cited.
In the article printed in Izvestia,
Mr.. Stettinius was quoted as writing
that the great majority of food sup
plies shipped in 1912 consisted of
pork. dairy products, fats and eggs
.. (The Moscow radio. broadcast
at length last night later state
ment made by Mr.. Stettinius last
Saturday listing planes, tanks,
trucks and many other articles
| sent to Russia. The broadcast
was recorded by Reuters and the
Soviet moniter in Landon.
(The statement was read slowly,
the usual sign provincial papers
were expected to copy IT'D
The only recent statement by Mr..
Stettinius to appear in Soviet news
papers was published March S. un-
der a New York dateline of March
2. 1t said:
I'm connection with the discus
sion taking place in Congress about
the prolongation of lease-lend aid
"*' Stettinius made statement.
I'm the statement he reviewed aid
given by the United States to Allied
countries according to the principle
of lease lend.
Increase In Aid Sought.
Touching on aid to the Soviet
Union, Stettinius said the larger part
of the armament which was used by
the Red Army to hold back and
then rebuff the Hitlerites was pro-
duced in Soviet Russia.
Simultaneous with these events,
the United States and England
began sending materials and arma-
ment which played their part,
although not large one, in infiict-
ing blows upon the enemy.
up until now said Stettinius,
sufficient aid has not been shipped
to the Soviet people. We must do
literally everything in our power in
order to increase the supplies
The price of materials sent by
the United States to the Soviet
Union, according to Stettinius.
amounted to s1,30O,0O0,O00 as of
January /, 1943."
North African Civilians Helped.
United States supplies to coun-
tries in the Middle East" the Tass
story continued, consisted of ST.
65O,00O,O00. This includes supplies
of armament and materials to Aus
tralia, New Zealand, the English
troops in Egypt and the Middle East
and to China and India.
Pertaining to supplies to Eng
land, Stettinius stated that up to
January l, this year, the United
States had sent to England, accord
ing to the lease-lend law various
materials worth $2,440 10000
Into North Africa for use of the
civilian population, Stettinius said
$4,000 tons of materials had been
sent. This does not include the
armament of French troops in North
Africa"
The article, published March 5,
said Mr.. Stettinius pointed out that
lease e-lend exchange of materials
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