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Lend-Lease pact signed with French committee
Agreement provides for eventual removal of U.S. forces from North Africa
Algiers, Algeria (UP) – (Sept. 25)
The United States and the French Committee of National Liberation today signed a Lend-Lease agreement formalizing the arrangement whereby America is now given French war materials and receive in return service and the use of facilities available in Northwest Africa.
The pact, the aim of which was described as permitting a maximum mutual aid between the two countries without being hampered by immediate financial considerations, was signed by Robert Murphy, for the United States, and René Massigli and Jean Monnet, Foreign Affairs and Armament Commissioners for the French committee.
A similar agreement is to be concluded in the near future between Britain and the Algiers committee, it was stated unofficially.
President to decide
The arrangement, contemplating the removal of U.S. troops from North Africa, provides for the elimination of reciprocal services at any time on the decision of the President of the United States, and that Lend-Lease supplies may be recalled if they are needed for other war theaters or for the defense of the United States or the Western Hemisphere.
The agreement also distinguishes between military and civilian supplies, requiring that civilian goods sent into French Africa must be paid for in dollars, while civilian merchandise exported from Africa to the United States is to be paid for in francs.
It explained that the payment in dollars was provided for because of a special situation arising from the accumulation of dollar balances and the availability of dollar funds due to the presence of U.S. troops in French Africa, and the pact added that:
The revision of payment provisions will be made should the situation require.
The French, as their Lend-Lease contribution, are to provide military equipment, munitions, military and naval stores and other supplies and services for U.S. forces, including the use of railroads and port facilities, although not required to provide pay and allowances or administrative expenses of American missions.
The French are also to supply necessary material and services, except for wages, needed in military constructions to the extent that North Africa is a practicable source of such supplies and facilities.
Mr. Murphy termed the agreement indicative of the practical relationship between the United States and the French committee.
How is that lend lease?
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From the article:
The arrangement, contemplating the removal of U.S. troops from North Africa, provides for the elimination of reciprocal services at any time on the decision of the President of the United States, and that Lend-Lease supplies may be recalled if they are needed for other war theaters or for the defense of the United States or the Western Hemisphere.
The French, as their Lend-Lease contribution, are to provide military equipment, munitions, military and naval stores and other supplies and services for U.S. forces, including the use of railroads and port facilities, although not required to provide pay and allowances or administrative expenses of American missions.
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Völkischer Beobachter (September 27, 1943)
Politische Ränkespiele zwischen London und Washington –
Wie Oberbefehlshaber gemacht werden
Von unserer Stockholmer Schriftleitung
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