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Show FOURTEEN MIGHTY CENTS For Americans facing simultaneous declarations of war against them by such well-prepared enemies as Japan and Germany, allies were as necessary as armaments arma-ments and trained fighters. Even now that the United States has built its war machine up to unprecedented proportions and efficiency, it cannot without allies assure as-sure itself of the decisive victory which is required if a durable peace is to be achieved. The Russians have acknowledged that the war against Hitler cannot be won without American supplies. sup-plies. However, American experience in the war has shown that without the achievements of the Russian armies, the British Navy, and the R. A. F. and British and Commonwealth land fighters, the United States would hardly have been able to marshal its forces in time to preserve a world in which a freedom-loving nation could be safe. Lend-Lease figures cited by Leo T. Crowley before the House Foreign Affairs committee show that Americans Amer-icans have obtained the priceless services of their allies, al-lies, and the precious time in which to develop American Ameri-can power potentials, for 14 cents of the war dollar. That is the portion of American war expenditures going- into Lend-Lease 14 per cent. Whatever value Lend-Lease may have for America's Amer-ica's Allies, it has been as big a bargain for Americans. Amer-icans. British civilians bombed by the Nazis, Russian soldiers, offering themselves by the millions just these two items among many help to explain what has been added to that 14 per cent to make it pay the dividends America is now reaping. True, the United States is still investing 86 cents out of every war dollar in enterprises that must be underwritten by the lives of its own men. But the 14 cents is saving American lives in numbers favorably disproportionate to the cost of the insurance. A vote in Congress to extend the Lend-Lease Act is a foregone fore-gone conclusion. Christian Science Monitor. |