LEADERS OF CONGRESS
MET BY PRESIDENT .
PLANS FOR WAR SPENDING
LONDON, August 18,
In Washington today President Roosevelt met Congress leaders mostly associated with foreign affairs. They included the Vice-President, Mr. Henry Wallace; Senators A. W. Barkley, majority leader in the Senate, Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and W. F. George,'•Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Mr. Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
It is understood that the President gave them an account of the international situation.
Senator Barkley told reporters that the question of a further lend and lease appropriation was raised, and the Japanese situation was mentioned only casually.
In London the American, Polish, and Russian Ambassadors called individually at the Foreign Office for talks with Mr. Anthony Eden.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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