Evening star., 1943-03-01
AEF's Monthly Cost
In Britain Cut 10
Less Than $4,000
Stettinius DiscIoses
Leose-Lend Saving to
Senate Committee
BY The Associated Press.

Edward R. Stettinius, jr., told
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today that lease lend
in-reverse had made it unneces-
sary now to spend more than
SIS 900 American cash a month
in Great Britain to maintain our
Army there. Other sources have
estimated 100000 American SOL
diers are stationed in the British
Isles.
In urging years extension of
the lease-lend law, Mr.. Stettinius,
who administers its operation, told
the Senators that the reciprocal
contributions the United States has
received from other United Nations
was "a most inspiring chapter" ;"
Much equipment and supplies were
given our soldiers without the ask
ing, he declared.
I'm the last war" he testified.
some $2,5o0,0O0,00O was expended
in year and a half by our Army
In France and Great Britain. In
this war the total dollar purchases
OF our Army in Great Britain from
July to December 81, 1912,
amounted to less than one million
dollars, and they are declining
month by month. Present cash ex-
penditures are running less than
$25 900 month"
While Mr.. Stettinius made no ex-
olanation of this figure, military au-
'horities said it was obvious that it
did not include the pay of American
troops stationed in the British Isles,
out only the cash spent there for
supplies for those troops.
Mr.. Stettinius said lease-lend in
reverse had cost our allies much
greater hardships than the Ameri-
can people had felt as a result of
this Nations contributions toward
the war. The civilian population of
New Zealand, he declared, Is suffer-
ing from food scarcities because so
many OF their supplies have gone
to feed American fighting men,
He listed these as some of the
important items received by the
| United States under lease lend:
Several hundred Spirtire planes.
Field guns and howitzers.
l,450,000 square yards of portable
airf1eld runways.
$4,000 bombs ranging from $50
pound incendiaries to 2,0OO-pound
block-busters.
10000 rounds of 6-inch shells,
many millions of rounds of small
arms ammunition.
More than 25o,oo0 anti-tank
mines.
Electric batteries at the rate of
500 900 a month.
100000 hand grenades.
More than 1000 parachutes.
Russia Needs Iore Aid.
Large quantities of food.
Mr.. Stettinius said that while
lease-lend aid to Russia was small
IN comparison to the Soviets' own
production of war materials, the
assurance that the flow of these
munitions and other vital supplies
would continue at an accelerating
rate has also been of Importance.
The Soviet Union has been able
to expend its equipment with the
knowledge that replacement and
! help are coming and would continue
to come" he said. But we have
not yet sent enough supplies to the
Soviet people, We must do every
thing humanly possible to send
more"
Conceding that aid to China thus
| far had been very small because
Of the transportation difficulties, the
witness said that every human ef-
fort and ingenuity will be exercised
to get lease-lend supplies into
! China"
Mr.. Stettinius depicted lease-le lend
operations as an effective weapon
to counterattack an expected Axis
peace offensive.
Secure faith in the support of
the Allies sustains the resolve of the
United Nations to win uncondi-
tional surrender" he declared. THE
assurance of help to come has
proven and will prove in the future
real factor in the unity of our
alliances
Up to last January 81, Mr.. Stet-
tinius said that the value of goods
and services transferred to other ma
tions under lease-lend was $685.
tSee LEAsE-LEND, page A-4J