Evening star., 1943-11-11
Text of President RooseveIt's Lease Lend Report
The tert OF President Roose-

The tert of President Roose-
peit's Lease-Lend- in Reverse re-
port TO Connress today:
To the Congress OF the Unitee
States of America:
Since the enactment OF the Lease.
Lend Act in March of 1941, have
transmitted to the Congress II re.
ports describing the lease-lend aio
which has been furnished by the
United States. These reports have
also included information with re-
spect to the types and quantities Of
reverse lease-lend aid provided to
the United States by the various
lease lend countries. While a COM
plete account of the reverse lease
lend aid which we have received
is not yet available. the statements
recently received from the govern
ments of the United Kingdom, Aus
tralia and New Zealand and from
our Army make 1t possible for me
to report to you at this time re-
garding part of the expenditures
made by the British Commonwealth
of Nations for reverse lease-lend
aid to the United States. E..
The overwhelming benefit which
the United States has received from
its lease lend program has, of
course, been the pooling Of resources
and the combined effort of the
United Nations against the Axis
countries. Each Of the United
Nations has contributed. There is,
of course, no physical or financial
standard of value by which we can
measure the military contribution
to the war on land or sea or in the
air which has been made by our
Allies or ourselves. One thing is
clear: BY the help which our friends
and Allies have given us, and by
the help which We have given them
in the common cause, We have not
only made progress in the war, but
we have saved the lives of many of
our own boys as we'll as those Of
our Allies.
The master agreements entered
into with Great Britain, the Soviet
Union, China and other United Ma
tions receiving lease-lend aid estab-
lish the principles which govern the
lease-lend relationship.
The other United Nations, under
the master lease-lend agreements,
have agreed to contribute to the
defense of the United States by pro-
viding as reverse lease-lend aid all
articles, services, facilities or infor-
nation which they can furnish.
Under these agreements, all lease
lend supplies, such as, for example,
merchant ships or cargo planes,
which are not used up in the war,
can be required by the President to
be returned at the end of the pres
ent emergency. Article VII of the
master agreements entered into with
the United Nations receiving lease
lend aid provides that they will join
with the United States in working
toward some of the economic condi-
tions which are prerequisite to a
secure peace.
The master lease lend agreements
do not determine the final settle
ment, but leave that for determine
ton at some future date.
AS conditions have permitted, our
Allies have expanded the scope and
nature of their reverse lease-lend
aid
During the past summer the
United Kingdom agreed to extend
reverse lease-lend aid to include not
only goods, services and information
for our armed forces, but also raw
materials, commodities and food
stuffs hitherto purchased, for ex-
port, in the United Kingdom and
the British colonies by or on behalf
OF United States Government
agencies. Discussions on the ad-
ministration and procedure for the
handling of the contracts, transfers
and other details are now going
forward.
This plan will make available to
the United States, under reverse
lease-lend and without payment,
such materials and foodstuffs as
rubber from Ceylon, Trinidad, Brit
ish Guiana and British Honduras:
sisal and pyrethrum from British