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Page 2 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 12 - Mr. Chairman, I have one or two questions that I would like to ask. I...
Page 44 - The terms and conditions upon which any such foreign government receives any aid authorized under subsection (2) shall be those which the President deems satisfactory, and the benefit to the United States may be payment or repayment in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory.
Page 28 - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the President may, from time to time, when he deems it in the interest of national defense, authorize the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or the head of any other department or agency of the Government...
Page 3 - ... those whom, in our own self-defense, we are determined thus to aid. The great problem of democracy is to organize and to use its strength with sufficient speed and completeness. The proposed legislation is an essential measure for that purpose. This bill will make it possible for us to allocate our resources in ways best calculated to provide for the security of this Nation and of this continent in the complex and many-sided conditions of danger with which we are and are likely to be confronted....
Page 13 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of questions that I would like to ask Dr.
Page 2 - ... whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, $175,000,000.
Page 2 - HULL, SECRETARY OF STATE Mr. Secretary Hull, the committee is very happy to have you here today, sir, and we will be very glad to have you make such statement as you feel appropriate to be made upon this occasion. GENERAL STATEMENT Secretary HULL.
Page 42 - The Secretaries of War and of the Navy are hereby authorized to purchase arms, ammunition, and implements of war produced within the jurisdiction of any American republic if such arms, ammunition, or implements of war cannot be produced in the United States.
Page 2 - States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, $200,000,000. (c) Not to exceed 20 per centum of any of the foregoing eight appropriations may be transferred by the President to any other such appropriation, but no appropriation shall be increased by more than 30 per centum. (d) For necessary services and expenses for carrying out the purposes of such Act not specified or included In the foregoing, $40,000,000. (e) For administrative expenses, $10,000,000.

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