ALLEGED MISUSE
LEND AND LEASE FUNDS “JUST PLAIN FALSEHOOD” % WASHINGTON, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Aug. 26. President Roosevelt told a press conference that charges of the misuse of lend and lease funds could be characterised as distorted halftruths or falsehoods, spread to sabotage the programme to defeat Hitlerism. He dealt with two specific charges, first, that British officials Charged meals and drinks against the Washington Lend and Lease Fund; secondly, that American steel was being sent to England for war use while British firms were still doing business as usual in the shipment of steel fabricated articles to Argentina. Regarding the first, he said he was most certain that, no such thing had been done. The story was not worth denial and was just a plain, dirty falsehood. Referring to the second, he said that British firms had some contracts negotiated in the oast which required a certain amount of steel. British firms did fulfil the contracts, but under no interpretation could these shipments he considered American steel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24697, 28 August 1941, Page 7
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