Lend-lease Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Unites States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 1776, a Bill Further to Promote the Defense of the United States, and for Other Purposes. January 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 1941Considers legislation to authorize the President to order military assistance for WWII European allies. Includes discussion of consequences of U.S. involvement in European and Pacific conflicts in violation of international non-intervention agreements. Also considers possible impact of German seizure of South American financial assets on U.S. defense. |
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... President , transfer title to or possession of such defense article or defense infor- mation by gift , sale , or otherwise , or permit its use by anyone not an officer , employee , or agent of such foreign government . SEC . 5. The ...
... President , transfer title to or possession of such defense article or defense infor- mation by gift , sale , or otherwise , or permit its use by anyone not an officer , employee , or agent of such foreign government . SEC . 5. The ...
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... President with the powers given ? Secretary HULL . I did not catch the first two or three words . Mr. TINKHAM . My question was whether under the provisions of the bill the President could commit an act of war ? Secretary HULL . Oh ...
... President with the powers given ? Secretary HULL . I did not catch the first two or three words . Mr. TINKHAM . My question was whether under the provisions of the bill the President could commit an act of war ? Secretary HULL . Oh ...
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... President more and greater powers than have ever been devolved upon a President except in the World War and possibly in excess of those powers granted in the World War ? Secretary HULL . Oh , when you go back even to the Civil War you ...
... President more and greater powers than have ever been devolved upon a President except in the World War and possibly in excess of those powers granted in the World War ? Secretary HULL . Oh , when you go back even to the Civil War you ...
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... President Roosevelt sent for me after having seen and discussed this proposed legislation with Speaker Rayburn . As the result of that conference between the President and Speaker Rayburn , we were asked to get in touch with Speaker ...
... President Roosevelt sent for me after having seen and discussed this proposed legislation with Speaker Rayburn . As the result of that conference between the President and Speaker Rayburn , we were asked to get in touch with Speaker ...
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... President the power to use the Navy to convoy belligerent ships any place in the world ? Mr. MORGENTHAU . My interpretation would be there is nothing in the bill that gives him any additional power in that respect that he does not have ...
... President the power to use the Navy to convoy belligerent ships any place in the world ? Mr. MORGENTHAU . My interpretation would be there is nothing in the bill that gives him any additional power in that respect that he does not have ...
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agree aid to Britain Ambassador amendment American answer Army attack authority Axis Powers believe belligerent bill BOLTON Britain British British Empire BULLITT BURGIN CASTLE certainly Chair CHAIRMAN CHIPERFIELD Colonel LINDBERGH committee Congress convoying course COURTNEY defeat defense article democracy dollars EATON EBERHARTER EMENY England Europe fact favor feel fighting FISH fleet force foreign France gentleman Germany give going Government hemisphere Hitler interest international law invasion JARMAN JOHNSON JONKMAN KENNEDY KNOX KNUDSEN legislation lend-lease MACNIDER matter mean ment military Miss THOMPSON Monroe Doctrine MORGENTHAU MUNDT munitions national defense naval Navy Neutrality Act object opinion pact peace PFEIFER planes position possible present President production provisions question RICHARDS ROGERS Secretary HULL Secretary STIMSON SHANLEY ships situation South America statement STEARNS Thank thing THOMAS TINKHAM tion totalitarian Treasury understand United violation VORYS witness
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Page 524 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Page 107 - 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 319 - ... we may well wonder, in view of the precedents now established, whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained in this republic could survive another great war even victoriously waged.
Page 332 - Force [The Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force...
Page 517 - All contracts or agreements made for the disposition of any defense article or defense information pursuant to section 3 shall contain a clause by which the foreign government undertakes that it will not, without the consent of the President, transfer title to or possession of such defense article or defense information by gift, sale or otherwise, or permit its use by anyone not an officer, employee or agent of such foreign government.
Page 74 - The terms and conditions upon which any such foreign government receives any aid authorized under subsection (a) 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 102 - Pact or of any rule of international law, do all or any of the following things: (a) Refuse to admit the exercise by the State violating the Pact of belligerent rights, such as visit and search, blockade, etc.; (b) Decline to observe towards the State violating the Pact the duties prescribed by international law, apart from the Pact, for a neutral in relation to a belligerent ; (c) Supply the State attacked with financial or material assistance, including munitions of war; (d) Assist with armed forces...
Page 489 - That the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the Army, is...