861.24/1791: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Hamilton) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 25—12:15 a.m.]
1863. Moscow newspapers for May 24th publish as their most prominent foreign news item a 36-inch Washington despatch on President’s 15th quarterly lend-lease report to Congress.90
[Page 1095]Slightly over half of the despatch dealt with the Soviet Union. Item quoted the President’s statements regarding Soviet victories, impending joint military blows from east and west, which had been prepared for by Soviet efforts in East and Anglo-American Mediterranean and European air operations. It gave many figures regarding dollar value and general extent of aid to Russia and figures of aircraft, tank and other types of aid including steel, leather and foodstuffs.
- President Roosevelt’s letter of May 22 transmitting this report to Congress is printed in Department of State Bulletin, May 27, 1944, p. 495. For the chief references to the Soviet Union in the Fifteenth Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations for the Period Ended March 31, 1944 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1944), see chapter iii, pp. 24–29. Some additional statistics for the year 1944 are in the 16th, 17th, and 18th reports.↩