Lend-Lease

The general had been, Hopkins confided, resistant to giving aid to England; he hoped that Churchill would introduce him around and give him the full treatment—win him over to the necessity for Lend-Lease, in other words.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Mann said: “Have you heard that the so-called Lend-Lease Bill, the law which authorizes the most all-embracing help for England, has now been approved by the Senate of the United States by a great majority?”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

 President Roosevelt worked out a deal called Lend-Lease, which allowed him to give weapons to any countries on the Allied side (including tanks, airplanes, and ships).

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 President Roosevelt worked out a deal called Lend-Lease, which allowed him to give weapons to any countries on the Allied side (including tanks, airplanes, and ships).

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Some of the German pilots on the eastern front shot down or destroyed on the ground hundreds of mostly Russian planes many of which the USA gave to Stalin on the Lend-Lease Program.

With a enemy kill rate of 11 to each plane lost. What fighter plane is considered to be the best all time. 2009

Some of the German pilots on the eastern front shot down or destroyed on the ground hundreds of mostly Russian planes many of which the USA gave to Stalin on the Lend-Lease Program.

With a enemy kill rate of 11 to each plane lost. What fighter plane is considered to be the best all time. 2009

As such, Hopkins was shifted out of the Commerce job and sent overseas as an unofficial adversary to Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin as well as to a key role in the Lend-Lease program.

Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins 2009

Once Churchill took power, FDR increased support to Britain as the first line of defense against Hitler through the Destroyer-Bases Deal which traded some fifty World War I–era destroyers for long-term U.S. leases to British territories near North America, expanded production of war matériel, held secret discussions leading to a “Europe First” strategy, and, most notably, signed the Lend-Lease Act to underwrite the financing of weapons and essential supplies to nations resisting Nazi Germany.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

As such, Hopkins was shifted out of the Commerce job and sent overseas as an unofficial emissary to Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin as well as to a key role in the Lend-Lease program.

Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins 2009

It fell to 10% in 1941 because of jobs created for the Lend-Lease program, declined further after the U.S. sent troops into battle, and by the war's end stood at 2%.

Of Debt and Taxes Mark Yost 2011