LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS
OIL FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN LARGER BRITISH CONTRIBUTION „ RUGBY. Jan. 7. President Roosevelt’s latest lendlease report answers the complaint that petrol has been drawn too heavily from the United States by the statement that this year a much larger part of the oil needed In the Mediterranean will come from sources under British control. He gives a pledge that after the war all nations will have fair and equal access to oil supplies. The report says that the United States is actually exporting a smaller quantity of petroleum products -than before the war. “We are using for our own war industry and armed forces about 88 per cent, of the oil we produce,” he said. “The additional production of crude petroleum in the United States since the outbreak and the curtailment of our non-essential civilian demands have been caused, not by lend-lease, but by the demands of our war industries and armed forces.”
President Roosevelt added that production in the Middle East had already surpassed pre-war production and greatly exceeded that of two years ago, when the whole area was threatened by the danger of falling under Nazi control.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25429, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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