LEND-LEASE PLAN
SHIPMENTS IN APRIL Washington, May 15. At his Press conlerence President Roosevelt said that lend-lease aid to all countries in April amounted to 677,000,000 dollars, compared with 588,000,000 in March. The total since the programme began has aggregated 3.825,000,000 dollars. For Military reasons, he declined to give the countries, but said that aid to Russia “was coming along all right.” The total assistance to all countries in April was double that ol last December. Since the beginning of the plan, the proportion of lighting weapons to food, drugs, and raw materials has steadily increased. To-day the major part of the aid supplied is in the form of finished munitions. The division of guns, planes, and ships and industrial materials between lhe American armed forces and industries and those of the Allies is made by military, naval, and industrial experts in a manner aimed at putting the supplies to the most effective use in lighting the common enemies. Asked whether the figures represented the actual deliveries abroad, Mr. Roosevelt replied that “a prettygood proportion" got there.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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