LEND-LEASE AID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 297, 17 December 1941, Page 5

LEND-LEASE AID

IT MUST EE CONTINUED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT S REPORT ißy TcleKrap l, - Pres, Association —Copyright.) Washington, Dec. 15. President Roosevelt reported to Congress on lend-lease aid to the Allies. It totalled 1,200,000.00(1 dollars to November 30. The actual exports to December amounted to only 595.000,000 dollars. | In Match lend-'ease amounted to only 18.000.0Jh dollars, but lend-lease was speeded up so greutly that 253.ItHKI.OOO dollars wall made available in I November. Congress had voted 13,iOOO.lKHijitiO dollars tor lend-lease. i President Roosevelt said that the xvea|iohs of the arsenal of the ilemo- | cracies must be used w here they can he employed most effectively. Therefore they must furnish weapons to Britain. Russia, China, and other nations. He teafiitmed Hutt lend-lease must continue, because too much was at stake in (his greatest of all wars fo them to neglected people who were being, or might be, attacked by their common enemies. Of the total lend-lease appropriations 9.186.U00.000 dollars had been allocated and 5,213,000,000 had actually been obligated. "The task of aiding those who are resisting the Axis is gigantic," said the President. "Only in America are the raw material resources, the productive capacity, and the manpower to complete the job. There must be guns, tanks, and planes in quantities beyond any- production we have yet accomplished or planned. "American shipping services are being strained to the utmost by the ever-increasing floyv of lend-lease shipments. The effectiveness of lendlease may- yvell depend upon the ability- of shipbuilders to expedite and expand the construction of ships. America is now launching two ships every yveek and yviH be launching tyvo every day by the middle of 1942."