Lend-Lease Aid Reaching Large Proportions

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 5

Lend-Lease Aid Reaching Large Proportions

(Rec. 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. President Roosevelt reported to Congress today that since the passing of the Lease-Lend Act. American weapons and supplies for the nations fighting the Axis, to August 31, totalled 324,563,000 dollars, including repairs to naval vessels, 78,169,000 dollars and material awaiting shipments, 35.964,000 dollars. Expenditure for articles and services not yet finished was 162,000,000 dollars. The message said: “The people of the United States realise that there can be no real peace and secure freedom until we have "destroyed the evil forces which seek to work us woe. Not Act Of Charity “We are not furnishing this aid as an act of charity. We offer it because we know the piecemeal resistance to aggression is doomed to failure, because the ruthless war machine which now bestrides the Continent of Europe can be combated only by the combined efforts of all free peoples, and at all strategic points where the aggressor may strike.” President Roosevelt concluded that planes, tanks, guns and ships had begun to flow from the factories and yards, and the flow would be accelerated day by day until the stream became a river and the river a torrent, “engulfing this totalitarian tyranny which seeks to dominate the world.” President Roosevelt has sent a message to the commander of the American Legion in stimulating patriotism, true pressing confidence that the nation can count on the interest of the AmericanLegion in stimulating patroitism,, .true citizenship and co-cperation in meeting whatever may face them. Capture Gr Destroy The Secretary for the Navy (Col. Knox), in a speech to the American Legion Convention, disclosed that beginning on Tuesday the U.S. navy, in compliance with President Roosevelt’s command have orders to “capture or destroy by every means at their disposal” Axis submarine and surface raiders encountered between the American Continent and water’s adjacent to Iceland. “That is our answer,” he said, “to Hitler’s declaration that he will try to sink every ship his vessels encounter on routes leading from the United States to British ports.” Attacking President Roosevelt’s broadcast, Signer Gayda alleged that American submarines have been operating in the Mediterranean and a declaration of war in due form would add nothing to the present situation.