Lend-lease: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress |
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3-year period 3%½ billion 3½ billion dollars act to promote agree allies approved March 11 armed forces Army British CHAIRMAN chemical warfare clean-up period commitment committee Congress contract or agreement CROWLEY DAVIDSON defeat of Germany defense articles delivered discussions fiction finished munitions following the defeat FOREIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION foreign government French furnish hostilities cease House amendment Japan Japanese July June 30 lend Lend-Lease Act Lend-Lease Administrator lend-lease aid lend-lease and reverse liquidation longer necessary master agreement ment military Morgenthau nonwar material Oscar Cox peacetime percent post-war rehabilitation post-war relief post-war value promote the defense provision Quebec Conference question reconversion requirements reverse lend-lease Senator BARKLEY Senator BRIDGES Senator GREEN Senator PEPPER Senator SHIPSTEAD Senator VANDENBERG Senator WILEY supplies surplus property thing TOM CONNALLY understand understood United Kingdom United Nations UNITED STATES SENATE victory
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Page 32 - After June 30, 1943, or after the passage of a concurrent resolution by the two Houses before June 30, 1943, which declares that the powers conferred by or pursuant to subsection (a) are no longer necessary to promote the defense of the United States, neither the President nor the head of any department or agency shall exercise any of the powers conferred by or pursuant to subsection (a) ; except that until July...
Page 37 - Into in accordance with sections 411, 412 and 413—419 of this title in which the United States undertakes to furnish to a foreign government defense articles, services, or information for use in the prosecution of the present war and which provides for the disposition, on terms and conditions of sale prescribed by the President...
Page 15 - States will both use all the fighting power that is required for the earliest possible defeat of Japan. It is likely, however, that both the United Kingdom and the United States will be able to reconvert part of their resources on an equitable basis to meet essential civilian needs in the period between the defeat of Germany and the defeat of Japan. As a result of such a partial and equitable reconversion there will be some improvement in the conditions of life of the British people. For...
Page 9 - The amendment further provides that an agreement entered into in accordance with the act, in which the United States undertakes to furnish to a foreign government defense articles, services, or information for use in the prosecution of the present war and which provides for the disposition of...
Page 1 - Government as he may designate, further to carry out the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States...
Page 1 - July 1, 1946" and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1947" ; and by striking out "July 1, 1943" and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1944" ; and subsection (b) of section 6 of such Act is amended by striking out "June 30, 1946" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1947".
Page 1 - Act is further amended by striking out the period after the word "earlier", inserting a semicolon, and the following new language: "Provided, however, That nothing in section 3 (c) shall be construed to authorize the President to enter into or carry out any contract or agreement with a foreign government for postwar relief, postwar rehabilitation or postwar reconstruction ; except that a contract or agreement entered into in accordance with this Act in which the United States undertakes to furnish...
Page 15 - Germany aml the defeat of Japan. As a result of such a partial and equitable reconversion there will be some improvement in the conditions of life of the British people. For 6 years, first standling alone against the enemy and later fighting alongside our own forces on battlefields, on seas, and in the sky...
Page 1 - The committee met at 10 am. pursuant to call, in the committee room in the Capitol, Senator Robert R.
Page 32 - July 1, 1946, any of such powers may be exercised to the extent necessary to carry out a contract or agreement with such a foreign government made before July 1, 1943, or before the passage of such concurrent resolution, whichever is the earlier.