LEASE-LEND AID

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20568, 23 September 1941, Page 9

LEASE-LEND AID

FUNDS REQUIRED ROOSEVELT MESSAGE LEADERS OF CONGRESS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 22, 2.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 21. A message from Hyde Park states that President Roosevelt has summoned Congressional leaders to White House for a conference to emphasise the necessity for quick Congressional action on the requested additional £1,496,250,000 of lend-lease funds. Those invited include the Vice-Presi-dent, Mr. I-I. A. Wallace, the leaselend supervisor, Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, the Speaker of the House ol Representatives, Mr. S. Rayburn, and Messrs. Connally, McCormack and Wood rum. Mr. Roosevelt yesterday signed the £888,250,000 tax bill. Mr. Roosevelt arrived at Hyde Park on Friday. He was to spend the week-end there attending to matters connected with his mother’s estate. Home lor the first time since his mother’s death on September 7, Mr. Roosevelt moved the press conference from the study where it is customarily held to the spacious library. He began by asserting there was no news. When asked regarding a story published in the London Daily express that an American warship had sunk an Axis raider in the Pacific, Mr. Roosevelt declined to comment one way or another. He said he had heard nothing of the’ Japanese question or the Far East situation during the previous 24 hours, although he was in constant touch with the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull. In a Jewish New Year’s message to-day, Mr. Roosevelt called on the nation to rededicate itself “to the task which lies before us, in order that all peoples may live as equals. I extend to the Jewish people of America sincere greetings and the confident hope that the temporary darkness which encompasses the world shall not extinguish the light of liberty and the blessings of freedom.”