POTENT WEAPON OF LEND-LEASE

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 7

POTENT WEAPON OF LEND-LEASE

RUGBY, May 22. Lend-lease and reverse lend-lease will be continued as an effective weapon of the Allied strategy for the Pacific war, said President Truman in a report to Congress. He disclosed that to the end of March Britain had received 12,79a,000,000 dollars of lend-lease supplies from the United States. To January 1 Britain had spent 3.352,000.000 dollars on supplies and services to the United States as reverse lendlease and another 2.000,000.000 dollars on aid to the other Allies, including the U.S.S.R. and China. The President added: “While the built of the United Nations forces were engaging the Nazis in Europe, the Allied forces succeeded in piercing the perimeter of the Japanese defences and established bases from which decisive offensives can be launched. Now all the might and power of the United States, the British Empire, France, the Netherlands and our other Allies, can be brought to bear, together with the Chinese forces, against Japan. "Long and costly as the struggle ahead may be, it. has been immeasurably shortened by the system of lend-lease and reverse lend-lease.” Mr. Truninn mentioned that of the almost 5.000.900,000 dollars of reverse lendlease received by the United States, 171.000.000 was from New Zealand. NewZealand and Australia had received 1.257.059.000 dollars in lend-lease trom America.