Less than two months after implementation, the merchant vessel Robin Moor was sunk in response to this program, an attack that isolationist Montana senator Burton Wheeler defended.
Edward Stettinius, later to be Secretary of State, left US Steel to take over the administration of this program. Less than two months after implementation, the merchant vessel Robin Moor was sunk in response to this program, an attack that isolationist Montana senator Burton Wheeler defended. One of the most common items transferred under this program was the Sherman M4 tank, and when it was presented to the public in a radio address, FDR likened it to the offer of a hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire without asking for payment in advance. FTP what was this program allowing the US to supply war materiel to the British and later the Russians before it officially entered WWII?
Edward Stettinius, later to be Secretary of State, left US Steel to take over the administration of this program.
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