...Government — 1. To manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards . . . any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. 2. To sell, transfer title to, exchange, Lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such...

...national defense . . . authorize the Secretary of War ... to manufacture . . . any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." < 20 > This act allowed Roosevelt to provide Churchill, and other Allies, with the help he...

...to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend" or otherwise dispose of any defense article "to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States." A vast and unprecedented grant of power to the executive, the bill by his request would limit...

...therefor, or contracts are authorized from time to time by the Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. (2) To sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such...

..."sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of" any article of defense to "the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States" without regard to the terms of any existing legislation. An initial appropriation of $7 billion...

...HR 1776), its scope was sweeping. The president could provide military articles and information to any country "whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." If he so desired, the terms defense article and defense information could cover virtually...

...Would you quibble over cash? This idea became LendLease, a bill, artfully numbered HR 1776, to aid any country "whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. " Not just Britain, but any country. It was a huge delegation of power. Senator Robert Taft,...

...passing of the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, which authorized Roosevelt to provide equipment to any nation "whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." In 1937, Henry Luce, who had been born in China of missionary parents, had put Chiang Kai-shek...

...The Lend-Lease Act (1941) gave the president the authority to lend or lease equipment to any nation "whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." During World War II, the United States provided $50 billion in lend-lease aid to its allies,...

...authorized the "manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards ... [of] any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States."68 The manufacture of warplanes became a major industry in southern California, with companies...