AMERICAN MISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7

AMERICAN MISSION

PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE

NEW YORK, September 6. President Truman is sending the chief of the war mobilisation organisation, Mr. John Snyder, the head of the Surplus Property Board, Mr. W. S. Symington, and the secretary of the Senate, Mr. Leslie Bift'le, to western Europe to learn at first hand Europe's needs and the possibilities of repaying the United States. The mission is to ascertain how much lend-lease materials is housed in British warehouses in England and the Continent, which Allied Governments should have the first allocation of available materials, and the extent to which the United States will consider itself obliged to send food and coal to Britain and the liberated countries.

While Mr. Truman sympathises with the plight of British economy, he is determined to aid Britain as much as and no more than is required. There is reason to. believe that the President was taken unaware by Mr. Crowley's order ending lend-lease without prior consultation with the British and other Allied representatives':

One of the mission's first assignments is to consult with Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin. It is expected that a real understanding will be reached on the arrival of Lord Halifax's mission, so that the abrupt cessation of lendlease "will not cause undue hardship to the British.