LEND-LEASE: Ten Billions Worth

The trickle of U.S. Lend-Lease aid which began in March 1941 has swelledinto a mighty torrent. Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. an nounced that in March 1943 Lend-Lease exports reached $708,000,000, highest monthly total to date. Russia now receives 31% of the total aid (“the overwhelming majority of supplies are arriving”), the United Kingdom, 38%. At the end of March, two years after the program be gan, the total valueof Lend-Lease aid had reached $10,300,000,000.