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Show Net Assistance About Emiai The United States, under the lend-lease policy, extended $42,-021,000,000 $42,-021,000,000 in exports, domestic transfers and services. Two-thirds of this total represented repre-sented munitions, fuel, metals and minerals, mostly used up during the war and including non-combat supplies, such as medicines and communications equipment. Great Britain received the bulk of the assistance, getting about one-fourth of the total. In return, under reverse lend-lease, the British supplied nearly $4,000,-000,000 $4,000,-000,000 worth of assistance. The Russians received the second largest amount of assistance, assis-tance, their share amounting to slightly more than $9,000,000,000. The Soviet, however, had few contacts with American forces and, therefore, reverse lend-lease from Russia totaled only $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. Contrary to what many Americans Ameri-cans think, the net assistance that we extended to our British allies was only slightly larger than the assistance we rendered our ally, Russia. For the British, the net figure is $9,702,000,000 and for the Russians, $9,127,000,-000. |