Topic: What 5 - 10% Lend Lease Meant to USSR in WWII

Mark Conley · July 8th, 2004

its a good question..to be honest, roosevelt never expected a penny back. Now i know that Britain paid painfully..they gave us the rights to naval bases, and a substantial amount of gold early on for the fifty destroyers we gave them (the neutrality act kept it from being a gift, in order not to provoke Germany into a premature war.)

There is a whole US government site on the amount of lend-lease and the countries given it: ill do some more research and post it.

July 8th, 2004
Mark Conley Tribuni Angusticlavii Gear	its a good question..to be honest, roosevelt never expected a penny back. Now i know that Britain paid painfully..they gave us the rights to naval bases, and a substantial amount of gold early on for the fifty destroyers we gave them (the neutrality act kept it from being a gift, in order not to provoke Germany into a premature war.) There is a whole US government site on the amount of lend-lease and the countries given it: ill do some more research and post it. __________________ “If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.”— General James H. Doolittle, USAAF