The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-02-04

home from the Casablanca confer
| ences, an official communique from
Rio DE Janeiro disclosed that the
President had also stopped In Natal
for a conference with President
Vargas of Brazil. The visit to Lii
IBERIA was made to pay respects to
President Edwin Barclay, to review
a large detachment of American Ne
gro troops, and to inspect the large
Firestone rubber plantation. The
conference at Natal brought to-
gether the presidents of the two
largest American Republics, the
United States and Brazil
Although, according to White
House Secretary Early the story of
the Casablanca Conferences is COM
plete, $50 far as it can be told at
the present time," subsequent chap
tiers undoubtedly will be written as
events unfold. Secretary of State
Hull told reporters that even the
State Department has not yet learned
all the details on what was said
about the political situation in North
Africa.
Lend-Lease
Testifying before the House For
eign Affairs Committee, Lend-Lease
Administrator Stettinius reaffairmed
the Lend-Lease Principle "the
principle of total cooperation among
Nations in the waging of war; as
the only one on which war of al
lance can successfully be waged.
The question, he said, is not whether
we should continue to send supplies
to our allies, but why have we not
sent more. Lend-Lease Supplies to
China, for example, are getting
through pitifully small amounts in
terms of what China needs, not
nearly all that we would have liked
to have supplied.
'Lend-Lease," Mr.. Stettinius said,
sis not loan of money. Nor has
it ever been an act of charity. The
Lend-Lease program of providing
goods and services to Nations resist
ing the Axis aggressors was under
taken for the defense of this iCoun-
try and has been carried out in the
interests of the people of the United
States" The cumulative value of
United States Lend-Lease aid from
March II, 1491 (date of it's incep-
tion) to December 81, 1912, was
1928, 100000 - 70 percent of this
for goods, Fl percent for services.
And about 80 percen. of the goods
valued at almost $4,000, 900
las been shipped.
One of the greatest achievements
of Lend-Lease has been its help in
making the British Isles an impreg-
nable base for offensive operations.
A large part of the North African
campaign was launched from Brit
ain and so were the campaigns in
the Middle East, Italian Africa,
Syria, Madagascar.
A few facts on reciprocal Lend
Lease - The United Kingdom from
May to November supplied Nnited
States forces in the United Kingdom
with materials (other than construc-
ton materially which would have
taken 100000 ship tons if shipped
from this Country. Australia and
New Zealand, under reciprocal Lend
Lease, are supplying practically all
of the food consumed by American
(, armed forces in the South Pacific
Area, including more than 10000
900 pounds of food, and are provid-
ing camps, airfields, repair depots,
and numerous other items; the Brit
ish Navy furnished two-thirds of the
warships which conveyed the expi-
dition to North Africa; also for
North Africa, the British supplied
substantial quantities of military
equipment as four 1,000-bed field
hospitals, 168 spitfires, 600 ampu-
lances, artillery, airfield runways,
bombs, ammunition.
Since the inception of the Soviet
aid program in October, 1941, the
United States has transferred to the
Soviet Union supplies, including
food, costing more than $3.50, 0O0,.
900. Lend-Lease food shipments tc
Russia from now on are expected tt
exceed by considerable margin
Lend-Lease food shipments to al
other parts of the world combined
il including shipments to the United
/ Kingdom.
i North African Drive
i In the conferences recently hell
in North Africa-the Casablanc;
conference and the military confer
ence at General Eisenhower's head
quarters-she highest military au
thorities of the United States an,
Great Britain conferred on strateg,
for the Mediterranean theater, set
, ting the stage for final offensiv
against all axis forces remaining i
Africa. That the Axis expects a gi
gantic Allied push is evident fror
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