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No later figures were available on
reverse lease-lend than those sub
mitted to Congress June 80, show
ing total expenditures Of $1,174, 900, :
600 by the United Kingdom, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and India. It
repated that this did not include
many expenditures by the British
for supplies and services for Ameri-
can armed forces overseas. The
Belgian government and the French
Committee Of National Liberation
are extending similar lease-lend aid,
1t was added, as also are China and
the Soviet Union "as the need
arises"
The real measure OF aid" received
by all the United Nations from
China and the Soviet, however, it
was emphasized, lies in their ac-
complishments on the battlefield.
13.5 Pct. of Expenditures.
Congress has made four appro-
priations totaling $24 4,683 .629 900 for
lease LEND and has authorized trans
fers from other appropriations
amounting to 5,s70, 900 900. the re-
port said
The cost Of lease-lend from its in
ception has been equivalent to 1875
per cent of all United States war
expenditures, and more than half of
the outlay was made in the first
II months Of last year. Munitions
exports, which have accounted for
nearly $4,000. 900 900 of the lease
lend total jumped l42 per cent in
1943 over 1942. Industrial items, in
cluding mining and farming ma
chinery for the British, accounted
for approximately $4,000, ,000, 600, and
foodstuffs for nearly $2,40o, 600, 600.
Aid to Russia was speeded up in
1943, with shipments s. per cent
higher than 1912.
The lend-lease aid we have fur
nished has been effectively used in
the Red Army's advances in the
Ukraine and White Russia" the
report said. Through october we
sent to the U. S. S. R. nearly 1000
PAuAlSS, bIdlI W oNilCk
lease-lend country; mre than $500
tanks and 1876 ZOO motor vehicles,
including trucks. jeeps, motor cycles
and other vehicles"
Much Food to Russia.
More than $400, 900 900 worth OF
foodstuffs, including wheat, -four,
sugar, canned meat. fats and oils,
dried fruits and vegetables, dried
eggs and butter-33, 500 tons-also
went to Russia to help out in the
severe food shortage occasioned by
German occupation and destruction
Of much farm land.
The report, as usual, cited the
difilculties of moving materials into
China and India.
The petroleum situation was dis
cussed at length. Production in
this country, it was said, jumped
from 1,214 ,000, 900 barrels in 1898 to
an estimated $500, 900 900 last year
while, to the contrary. exports, in
cluding lease-lend and commercial
shipments dropped from, Is to II
per cent of the output.
I'VE are using for our own war
industry and armed forces in this
country and abroad about SO per
cent of the oil we produce" the
report said, adding that "a consider
able part" Of our overseas require
ments come from Allied sources.
British Production Rising.
The British also are increasing
production In the Middle East,
while in the same area American
companies, with the assistance OF
the Defense Supplies Corp, are
seeking to expand the output Of the
refinery at Bahrein, on the Persian
Gulf. ,l.-'..
There has been a shortage OF
tankers available to the United
Nations in relation to. the needed
quantities of petroleum products
and the long distances over which,
these products have had to be car
ried from the refineries to the wal
theaters,'' the report explained.
United States and British con-
trolled tankers have been Jointly
programmed to maintain the most
ehicient operation and eliminate
cross hauls The shortage Of tankers
has made it imperative, in order tc
maintain the maximum supply od
petroleum products going into the
theaters of operations, that the
shortest haul be used whereve,
possible
The report said that most Of the
lease-lend petroleum Is going to the
United Kingdom for use in the BON.
bardment Of Europe and other wal
purposes, as tankers cannot be
spared for the long voyage to this
area from the Persian Gulf re-