LEND-LEASE AID

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 1, 27 September 1943, Page 5

LEND-LEASE AID

Agreement With French National Committee

(British Official Wireless.) (Received September 26, 8.40 p.m.) RUGBY, September 26.

Air.- Robert Murphy, personal representative of Presidept Roosevelt in North Africa, and AIM. Massigli and Boijnet for the French National Committee, yesterday afternoon signed a provisional modus vivendi agreement for lending reciprocal aid for the prosecution of the war, states an Algiers correspondent Military supplies are to be furnished by the United States and the French authorities will pay for civilian supplies on a basis of prices to be agreed on. The political significance of the lendlease agreement is pointed out by the Algiers correspondent of the “New York Times.” Economically, it merely formalizes a state of affairs existing since November, 1942, but politically it provides a great stimulant to French morale, which has suffered first, by the limited recognition extended by Britain and America, and secondly, by tlie committee’s non-inclusion in.the armistice negotiations with Italy. Through this agreement, the United States has effectively raised Free France to the status of a member of the United Nations.