Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Allies GET Third
0fTanks,PI lanes,
Says Stettinius
Leuse-Lend Aid
Exceeds Eight Billion,
Congress Is Told
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Administrator Edward r. Stet-
tiniuS, jr.. reported to Congress
today that one out of every three
tanks and combat planes built
in this country last year went to
our Allies, either through lease
lend or direct purchase. He also
announced that the cumulative
value of lease-lend up to Janu-
airy l was $8,253 100000.
Aside from tanks and planes.
lease lend has taken much smaller
shares of weapons Mr.. Stettinius
estimated that in the last six
months lease-lend exports of NUM-
tons amounted to IS per cent of
American production of these items
OF the eight billion-pl total
since the program began March II,
l941, about 70 per cent, or s6,548.-
100000, was for goods transferred
TO United Nations and l,705 ,000,0
was for services rendered.
Lease-Lend Not Charity
'Lease-lend is not a loan Of
money" the administrator empi1a-
sized. Nor has it even been an act
of charity. The lease-lend program
of providing goods and services to
nations resisting the Axis agrees
sors was undertaken for the defense
of this country and has been car
ried out in the interests Of the
people of the United States.
I'VE have aided other peoples
under lease-lend because their in
terests conceded with our interests"
The program of aiding our Allies,
Mr.. Stettinius said, was far from
one-sided, since other United Ma
tons are supplying each other, and
reciprocal aid to the United States
has already saved millions Of tons
of shipping space and many hun
dreds of millions of dollars" Recip-
rocal aid, he said, has been sup
piled principally by the United
Kingdom, Australia and New Zea-
land to American forces overseas,
and by China, South Africa, Fight
ing France and Belgium
During 1943, Mr.. Stettinius as
serted, American supplies will have
a much greater effect" on the war
picture. the goal of this country
being Ito double its war production"
in order to supply arms in the
quantities necessary for victory"
Mr.. Stettinius listed the total
value of lease lend aid in 1912
alone at $1,000 ooo, COO, more than
FIVE times 1941s volume and sig
nificantly pointed out that $2,482,-
100000 of the 1912 total was pro-
vided during the years last three
months.
The basic war strategy of the
United Nations he commented, lis
to combine all their material and
rnanpower resources in such way
as will achieve the maximum pos
sible impact upon the enemy in the
shortest possible time. Lease-lend
is a principal means by which the
United States combines a share Of
Its material strength with the ma
terial strength and manpower of our
Allies in order to carry out this
strategy.
When Gen. Sherman tank
smashes through an Axis emplace-
ment, the enemy is hurt just as
much whether the action is before
Stalingrad or on the Axis TANKS in
Iibya and Tunisia ." American
steel shaped by British machine
tools into 25-pounder guns at fac
tory in the English Midlands adds
to the total fire power of the armies
fighting the Axis American
foods shipped abroad bring the day
of victory closer by providing the
Galleries necessary to sustain the
energy and strength of those fight
ing our enemies, whether it be a
Soviet soldier from Tiflis pushing
forward against the Nazis through
snow and ice or British
mother whose children are entrusted
to a day nursery while she takes a
mans place at a lathe in a shell
making plant
Britain's Output Large.
Although lease-lend shipments
have already played an important
part in the war, Mr.. Stettinius
said. they have formed only one OF
many streams flowing into the pool
OF United Nations resources"
He said that until last spring
Great Britain, with one third of
our population. was producing more
arms than the United States, and
pointed out that more Nazi soldiers
have been killed by Russian-made
weapons since the beginning of the
war than on all the other fronts
combined"
Great Britain's part in the gen.
(See LEASE LEND, Page Tx