The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-29
STETTINTUS ASKS
MORE ALLIED AID
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creasingly powerful series Of often.
sive thrusts on the seas, In the air,
and on the many land fronts Of the
war. One Of the greatest achieve.
ments Of lend-lease has been the
help we have given In making the
British Isles an impregnable base
for offensive operations and one Of
the great arsenals Of democracy. A
large part Of the North African
campaign was launched from Bril-
tain and 80 were the campaigns In
the Middle East, italian Africa, Sy-
ria, Madagascar. The forces for
India, Iran, 1raq and many other
places started and were largely
equipped from Britain, which re-.
mains one Of the key regions Of the
war;"
Australia - Arms for her troops
and machine tools and raw mater
ials for her rapidly.growing arsenal.
Australia Is supplying to US, as re.
ciprocal lend-lease, practically all Of
the food consumed by our men In
the South Pacific area, and is ex-
panding her food program so as to
be able to supply the southwest Pa.
cific area as well. Our forces In Aus
tralia have also received camps, air
fields, repair depotS, q complete tire
rebuilding and maintenance plant,
and numerous other items.
New Zealand - Normally @ food
exporting nation-such great guam
titles Of food have been supplied to
our forces without cost TO us that
eggs, milk and fruit are in short
supply, and the civilian population
Is feeling the pinch.
China-We have not been able
under Lend-Lease to supply all the
aid that Is needed in China or that
we would have liked to have sup.
piled. The difficulties Of transport
on the Burma Road were faced and
improved. But Burma fell. Supplies
now are being flown across the
highest mountains In the world I'm.
der conditions that might seem i'm
possible. Bot they are getting
through. They are getting through
in pitifully small amounts In terms
Of what China needs, but at an &C
celebrating rate. We will not--and we
should not-Stop until all ingenuity
and every effort Is expended to
move more aid into China.
What China has done under re.
ciprocal Lend-Lease Is symbolic.
China paid dollars to purchase vital
planes for the famous Fighting
Tigers Of the American volunteer
group. When the American volun-
teer group was to be abolished, q
board Of United States army officers
recommended that the 46 planes and
other equipment Of the Fighting IT,
gers be taken over by the United
States air forces and paid for In
cash. But Genefalissimo Chang
Kai-Shek insisted upon turning
over the planes to the United Sattes
air forces without the payment Of
cash, as q token Of China's feeling
Of friendship for the United States.
Russia-Sihce the inception Of the
Soviet aid program in October 194l,
we have transferred to the Soviet
Union supplies, including food.
which cost more than 1,126, 600. 600.
In order to give you o better IDEA
of what this dollar figure means. I
can tell you that we had to the end
of November, 1912 sent the Soviet
Union almost $500 planes = more
than to all other countries COM
bined. and 81 900 trucks, jeeps and
other motor vehicles.
To the end Of November, Britain
sent Russia more TINA 1000 planes
and approximately 1900 tanks.
Food shipments to Russia IN tne
mast have not been such a large
nroportion Of our total food EXPORTS
but they are greatly on the IN
crease, Lend-lease shipments to
Russit from onow on are expected
to exceed by a considerable margin
lend-lease food shipments 70 al
other parts Of the world combined,
including shipments to the United
Kingdom.
Egyptian Drive Cited
Egypt = The Egyptian campaign
was in excellent example of lend
lease in action. During the period
from February to- November. 1872
the United States exported under
lend-lease and under cash purchase
to Egypt over 1000 planes, many
hundreds Of tanks. 10000 trucks and
hundreds Of pieces Of artillery. Here
again we reaped the benefit OF work
done over q year ago,
Lend-lease funds and British
funds were used to construct the
supply lines over which these wea-
pons were sent. Supply bases, docks.
and naval facilities. air fields, and
repair and assembling shops In the
Red Sea area and IN Egypt were
built, rebuilt or nelarged. Air ferry
routes were established across
African, and, together with the
British and fighting French, the
United States built or improved air
fields ali the way from the Atlantic
coast OF Africa TO the Anglo-Egyp
tian SUDAN and the Red Sea. With
out these supply lines. the Esyption
campaign could not have been un-
derlaken.
North Africa = Military front =
while there the American share n
supply was larger, the campaign
represents a genuine pooling q our
resources with those Of our Alias,
one hundred slxlT-eleht o. ne