APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1942

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

Y. S. Congress. Lavel

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON THE

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL NATIONAL DEFENSE
APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1942

(INCLUDING DEFENSE AID-LEND-LEASE
APPROPRIATIONS)

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PART I

DEFENSE AID-LEND LEASE

Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1941

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman

Also participating on Defense Aid (Lend-Lease)

SUBCOMMITTEE ON WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Messrs. SNYDER (chairman), TERRY, STARNES, COLLINS, KERR, MAHON, POWERS, ENGEL, and CASE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NAVY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS

SCRUGHAM (chairman), CASEY, SHEPPARD, BEAM, THOMAS, DITTER
PLUMLEY, and JOHNSON (Ind.)

DEPOSITED BY THE AITED STATES OF AMERICA

OCT 20'41

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL NATIONAL DEFENSE
APPROPRIATION, 1942

HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COM-
MITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS, MESSRS. CLAR-
ENCE CANNON (CHAIRMAN), CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, LOUIS
LUDLOW, J. BUELL SNYDER, EMMET O'NEAL, GEORGE W. JOHN-
SON, LOUIS C. RABAUT, JOHN TABER, RICHARD B. WIGGLES-
WORTH, WILLIAM P. LAMBERTSON, AND J. WILLIAM DITTER;
ALSO PARTICIPATING ON DEFENSE AID (LEND-LEASE), SUB-
COMMITTEE ON WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS: MESSRS.
SNYDER (CHAIRMAN), TERRY, STARNES, COLLINS, KERR,
MAHON, POWERS, ENGEL, AND CASE. SUBCOMMITTEE ON NAVY
DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS: MESSRS. SCRUGHAM (CHAIR-
MAN), CASEY, SHEPPARD, BEAM, THOMAS, DITTER, PLUMLEY,
AND JOHNSON (IND.) ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941.

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL OF THE SECOND LEND-LEASE REPORT AND
SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR NATIONAL DE-
FENSE, 1942

The CHAIRMAN. We will take up this morning House Document No. 374, containing a supplemental estimate of appropriations in the amount of $5,985,000,000 for operations under the Lend-Lease Act.

We will include in the record the President's letter of transmittal of the Second Lend-Lease Report, and his letter transmitting the Budget estimate, together with a copy of the Budget estimate. (The statements referred to are as follows):

The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

I am submitting this report pursuant to Section 5 (b) of the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, which provides that the President report to the Congress every 90 days on the operations under that act.

The Lend-Lease Act was passed by the Congress just 183 days ago. One hundred and sixty-seven days ago, the Congress appropriated 7 billion dollars to carry out our national policy of giving every possible material assistance to the countries resisting aggression.

The effective expenditure of this large sum in furtherance of our announced policy has presented tasks of large proportions. We have surveyed the needs of the countries we are aiding. We have correlated this program of aid with the procurement programs of our own Army and Navy. We have arranged with our industries for the production of the great quantities of material involved.

The War Department, the Navy Department, the Treasury Department, the Agriculture Department, and the Maritime Commission are the agencies principally charged with the actual procurement of the supplies. They are now far along with their task.

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