| Merriam-Webster, Inc - Law - 1996 - 662 pages
...the authority to aid any nation whose defense he believed vital to the United States and to accept repayment "in kind or property, or any other direct...indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory." The principal recipients of aid during World War II were the British Commonwealth countries (about... | |
| Alan Axelrod - History - 1999 - 518 pages
...any nation whose defense he believed vital to the United States and to accept repayment for such aid "in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory." Soon, lend-lease was extended beyond aid to Great Britain. In April 1941, China was included, and,... | |
| Sir Isaiah Berlin, Isaiah Berlin - Philosophy - 2004 - 840 pages
...lend-lease system in December 1940, and his Lend-Lease Act was passed in March 1941. The Act allowed repayment 'in kind or property, or any other direct...indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory'. 3 Burton Kendall Wheeler (1882-1975), Democratic Senator from Montana 1923-47; Chairman of the Interstate... | |
| Albert Loren Weeks - History - 2004 - 196 pages
...power to sell, transfer, lend, or lease such war materiel. The president was to set the terms for aid; repayment "in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the president deemed satisfactory." Days after Lend-Lease was passed, Roosevelt appointed his close friend and adviser,... | |
| John H. Wood - Business & Economics - 2005 - 464 pages
...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...indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory," Article VII of The Master Lend-Lease Agreement of July 1942 was more specific: "In the final determination... | |
| Robert H. Holden - History - 2004 - 360 pages
...were allowed), and under what terms. The Act even empowered the President to authorize "payment or repayment in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which [he] deems satisfactory."12 Lend-Lease signaled the onset of two postwar trends that together radically... | |
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