Show FRANCE PAYS installment ON LEND LEASE MATERIALS the french provisional government has recently paid to the U S government as a further installment on the accepted outstanding billings for shipments oi of materials made to french north and west africa during the last two years under reimbursable lend lease this ibis brought the total of payments on this account to 1 this program of supply was started in february 1943 when the allied forces were driving the nazis from north africa and iq i scheduled for discontinuance on june 30 1945 |