PRESIDENT'S MOVE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 7

PRESIDENT'S MOVE

ONLY CARRYING OUT LAW

Rec. 11.30 a.m

LONDON, August 24.

"As a minor, if welcome, set-off to the difficulties created by the cessation of lend-lease. the simultaneous stoppage of reverse lend-lease may mean that certain stocks of meat in Australia and New Zealand which the Americans would have received will now be available for Britain," says the Press Association's lobbyist.

Britain's supplies of American films, tobacco, and chopped ham will be the principal imports affected. Cabinet has received definite information about the cessation of lendlease. Until the last 24 hours it was generally expected that there would be discussion on the most satisfactory method to follow.

It can be completely discounted that lend-lease would not have ended if a Conservative Government had been in power.

Three members of the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee emphasised at a Press conference in London that President Truman could not c"o anything else hut end lend-lease, as he was only carrying out the law.

Mr. Karl Mundt said the committee would probably favour an interim arrangement, if one was feasible, for continuing supplies. It was not a blow against Labour. The food position of the United States was getting serious, the cash box low, and the cupboard bare.