Uncle Sucker?

Congress will shortly be asked for more Lend-Lease money. But last week complaints from U.S. businessmen about Britain's use of Lend-Lease to date were reaching the noisy stage. Some reports seemed to make Uncle Shylock look like Uncle Sucker. Lend-Leasers and other friends of Britain were anxious to nail the complaints down, get the reasons for them. They found:

To the South. Loudest complaints concerned Latin America. For months, tales of U.S. Lend-Lease products (or reasonable facsimiles) turning up south of the border at cut prices have appeared, been denied or explained, reappeared. General Electric made a bid on...

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