...To test, inspect, prove, repair, outfit, recondition, or otherwise to place in good working order, to the extent to which funds are made available therefor,...by the Congress, or both, any defense article for any such government, or to procure any or all such services by private contract. (4) To communicate...

...the Navy, or the head of any other department or agency of the Government — (1) To manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards under their jurisdiction,...time to time by the Congress, or both, any defense articles for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of...

...the act provided that the United States could supply Jtany defense article /authorized in the act/ for the government of any country whose defense the...President deems vital to the defense of the United States. "8 In an effort to resolve the question of how to supply the Latin American countries with...

...contracts or orders of the Army or Navy, deliveries of material under — "(A) Contracts or orders for the government of any country whose defense the...President deems vital to the defense of the United States under the terms of the Act of March 11, 1941, entitled 'An Act to promote the defense of the...

...(2) of that Act have been sold, transferred, exchanged, leased, loaned, or otherwise disposed of to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. SEC. 7. The Director may designate as licensing agents persons authorized by law to administer...

...[(a) For the procurement, by manufacture or otherwise, of defense articles, information and services, for the government of any country whose defense the...President deems vital to the defense of the United States, and the disposition thereof, including all necessary expenses in connection therewith, as foLlowe:]...

...government agencies "to manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards under their jurisdiction . . . any defense article for the government of any country...President deems vital to the defense of the United States," and "to sell, transfer tide to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such...

...as the agency to "initiate and support such scientific and medical research as may be requested by the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States . . . and serve as liaison office for the conduct of such scientific and medical research for...

...Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act which provided that the President might authorize the manufacture of "any defense article for the government of any country...President deems vital to the defense of the United States" and might "transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of," to any such...

...and an appropriation of $7 billion to implement it. This law realistically provided for material aid "for the government of any country whose defense the...President deems vital to the defense of the United States." Our whole program of aid for the democracies has been based on 'The prepared text specified...