Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
President Cites
Lend.Lease Aid
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defeat the axis. We have already
beaten back our enemies on every
front on which we are engaged.
AT Tehran and Cairo plans were
agreed upon for major offensives,
which will speed the day of victory.
With the closer unity there achiev-
ed, we shall be able to strike ever
increasing blows until the uncondi-
tional surrender of the NaZis and
the Japanese"
Pointing out that the cost of
lendlease from its start on March
II, l94l, through November of l943
amounted to 1875 per cent of all
United States war expenditures for
that period, the president said the
cost of the war to us, and to our
allies, is high in any terms
MUST MOBILIZE POWER
The more fully we can now
mobilize our manpoWer, our sup
plies, and our other resources for
the decisive tasks ahead" he said,
the earlier will victory be ours
and the lower the final costs-in
lives and material wealth.
The United Nations enter the
new year stronger and more firmly
united than ever before. Germany
and Japan will both soon learn
that to their SORROW
The report dramatized in multiple
ciphers the increasing flow of Amer
lean war aid to the allies. In the
section on supplies for Russia, the
president cited figures showing that
through last october the Soviet
Union received nearly 1000 air.
planes, more than any other lend
lease country more than $500
tanks and $4,000 motor vehicles
titles of food, clothing, steel, and
munitions.
POSTWAR PROBLEMS
The presidents report also went
into the postwar problems of Oil
production and use of foreign air
ports, putting before congress two
suggested international agreements
to provide for fair and equal
access" by the United States and
other nations to world oil produc-
ion, and to establish a system of
general military security to watch
over world airfields.
Aid to Russia through last Octo-
Der was valued at $3.50, ,443,000 'or
more than one-fourth of lend-lease
exports to all countries The flow
of American material to the Red
army was greatly speeded in l943,
with the ratio during the first 10
months of 1943 some SO per cent
higher than for all of 1912.
Total lend-leaSe exports to the
United Kingdom were valued at
S5,990,379, 900; some S2,168,299, 900
went to Africa, the Middle East,
and the Mediterranean area, and
Sl,6G3 3,346 COO to China. India, Aus
tralia, and New Zealand. These fig
ures covered the period from Marcn
II, l941, through October, 1943,
whereas the overall total of Sl8,-
6O3 $4,000 covered the period
through November.
FOR LATIN NATIONS
Possibly as a reply to critics of
government spending policies in
South and Central America, the re-
port said that from March, l94l, to
October 81, 1943, total lend-lease
shipments to Latin America amount
ed to S116,543 900 and that the ar
rangementS TO supply war equip
ment to those countries had the
approval of the high command.
The report observed that no
lend-lease aid is being furnished
to the republic of Argentina" the
only one of the Latin American
countries still maintaining relations
with the axis.
OTHER POINTS
1t emphasized number of other
points, including:
/. Lend-lease aid to all nations
declined from an all-time monthly
peak of more than $1,000, 100000 in
August, 1943, to slightly more than
an even one billion dollars in No
vember.
2. Because of increasing reverse
lend-lease, neither lend-leaSe stat
istics nor dollar figures of any kind
can measure the relative contribu-
tions toward winning the war of
the United States and the other
United Nations"
3. Considerable quantities" of
supplies are being stockpiled in
India for China and for shipment
when better transportation facili-
ties are available.
4. Hundreds of thousands of
tons of shipping space" have been
saved by shipping farm machinery,
rather than food itself overseac