Show Churchill Churchill and and Stalin Promise to Defeat Nazis With American War Wor Aid Hitler's Fall Predicted Within Year Year- Lend lease Loan of Billion Dollars ollars Backs Pressed Hard-Pressed Red Armies Roosevelt Confident of Production WASHINGTON Nov 7 AP The AP-The The United States ba backed ked the pressed hard-pressed armi armies s of of Russia with a dollar billion lease lease- lend credit Friday President Roosevelt directed deliveries to commence immediately Immediately Immediately Im im- Im- Im mediately and to be fulfilled in the largest possible amounts until the huge stores of munitions munitions munitions muni muni- represented by the credit are in soviet hands This new assistance program posed for the nation a stupendous task both in production and transportation transportation transportation trans trans- if it the supplies are to I reach the Russian fronts in effective effective effective tive time but Mr Roosevelt indicated indicated indi indi- definite confidence that the job would be done rs Psychologically Well ell Timed S The unheralded decision to extend extend ex ex- tend lend lease-lend aid to Russia was announced late Thursday by the state department Whether by accident accident accident ac ac- ac- ac or design the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment was psychologically well- well timed It came on the eve of the Soviets' Soviets great national holiday holiday- the twenty-fourth twenty anniversary of the 1917 bolshevik revolution And it followed by a few hours the radio address of Premier Josef Stalin in which the Russian leader spoke of the great importance of the aid already being received from Britain and the United States The announcement was in the form of an exchange of correspondence correspondence correspondence dence between Mr Roosevelt and Stalin In a letter dated October 30 Mr Roosevelt wrote that the credit was being made available without interest and that soviet repayment would not commence until five years after the wars war's en end Stalin Accepted Accept d Terni Terms Terms- V Replying on on No November iber 4 st Stalin li agreed to the credit terms and voiced the sincere gratitude of Russia for this unusually substantial substantial substantial sub- sub aid in its difficult and great struggle against our common com com- com 4 mon mono enemy bloodthirsty Hitler- Hitler ism lam Taken somewhat unaware by bythe bythe bythe the credit disclosure Capitol hill reacted along expected lines The staunch supporters of administration tion foreign policy saw in the decision a wise move to bolster the Russian stand against Hitler and thus contribute to his eventual eventual eventual even even- downfall A chorus of condemnation arose from the opposite camp Mr Roosevelt was charged with giving away the huge sum without the consent of the American taxpayers who foot the bill Senator Nye Nyc R. R N. N D. D commented acidly When we passed the lend lease-lend law it was to aid democracies Now it is to give Brother Joe smackers with no ifs no ands no buts The credit will come from the second lend lease-lend appropriation which congress recently recently recently re re- re- re enacted When the measure Continued on Page Four Column Six Churchill Stalin Join In Vow to Beat Hitler Continued from Page pas One were no definite reports to indicate indicate indicate indi indi- I cate any Important changes of position although the Germans claimed to be battling in the fortifications fortifications for- for of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol in the Crimea while artillery and dive bombers attacked the center of the city Stockholm also heard reports that a new Finn Finn- German Finn erman drive against the Russians in the far tar north was In progress but London London London Lon Lon- don said that any important advance advance advance ad ad- vance there was doubtful Weather Halts Germans GermansOn On the Moscow front the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans said that impossible weather conditions had brought all major operations to a halt The British and Russians continued to report fighting on unchanged positions positions po- po around Moscow including gains jains by Russian counterattacks at several points but analysis of these hese r reports ports indicated that they were largely a rehash of front dispatches dispatches dis- dis patches for t the e last six or seven days In general It appeared that the Russians had stopped and perhaps driven back the Germans from the vital munitions munitions' center of Tula had counterattacked and gained some ground on the amsk sector west of Moscow Inthe in inthe the he last week and were fighting strongly at Kalinin to the north north- west A A- broadcast by the soviet official official cial ial news agency Tass said that the he Germans were moving reinforcements reinforcements rein- rein to the Moscow front and the Hungarians continued to claim progress in the Donets basin All of these reports however seemed to indicate a comparative lull ull due to weather on the Moscow front and at least a momentary stalemate in the Ukraine either due ue to soviet resistance or the need for or reorganizing axis forces Only in n the Crimea did there seem to tobe tobe toe be e scale big-scale action and the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans there admittedly were meeting meeting meet- meet ing ng with obstinate resistance Finns Reported Moving Northward on the Arctic front the he Finns were said by Stockholm to o be pushing a new drive over a 30 mile 30 mile mile- route from toward oward the railroad and the Jie White sea coast in an effort to o tie up that important Russian port ort for keeps There was every indication that under German pressure the Finns would keep on fighting An official official official cial denial was issued at Helsinki of reports abroad that the Finnish radio had said the war was drawing drawing draw- draw ing ng to a close so far as the Finns were concerned On the air front the Russians I reported they had shot down 90 enemy planes in two days mostly on the Moscow front where it was indicated that the still was attempting to o bombard the soviet soviet capital without marked success All of these developments on the military field provided a more impressive background than might have been expected two weeks ago for Stalin's speech in the Red square although his call for Britain Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain to open a second fighting front frontin in western Europe or the Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean area brought rought no response from London Stalin said that the Germans were draining their strength on the battlefield on the home front and on the scattered front where they are fighting rebels throughout through through- out occupied Europe Hitler is facing a catastrophe he said predicting that the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans may crack under the strain within six months or a a year whereas the Russians are stronger now and in a better strategic position position position po po- po- po than when they fought military military military mili mili- tary forces of many countries 24 years ago |