U.S. AID TO SOVIET
AEROPLANES FIRST
CAIRO, October 9
General J. H. Burns, United States Defence Aid Chief, on his arrival from Moscow, where he conferred with M. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, declared that the United States would be to give effective aid to Russia "in time," and added that the first
American aid reaching Russia would be aeroplanes, which would probably be flown there. "I do not think there is any doubt that the Russians will go on fighting, and that we will go on helping them till victory is won," he said. "I feel certain that the Russians will be fighting a long time from now." General Burns said he was convinced that the Russians would not be defeated before the American help arrived. He remarked that he saw Russian workers in engineering plants working 14 hours a day, and even then being reluctant to leave the job.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 9
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