U.S. At War: Lend-Lease in Reverse

Administration officials had already demonstrated that Lend-Lease works both ways (TIME, Feb. 1). But last week came the sharpest proof of all. Major George A. Spiegelberg, of the Army’s General Purchasing Board, told Congress that U.S. forces in the United Kingdom have spent only $1,000,000 since last June. All the vast remainder of their equipment, facilities, services and food was bundles from Britain.