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AMERICAN AID TO BRITAIN TWO MILLION TONS OF SHIPPING. ANNOUNCEMENT BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. LONDON, June 11. An announcement that the United States immediately was making | available to Britain two million tons I gross of cargo ships and oil tankers | was made by President Roosevelt in i a report to Congress. He informed Congress that since the Lend and Lease Act had been passed. £138.000.000 had been allocated for the construction of new ships. Allied ships were also being repaired, equipped to protect them from mines, and armed for protection against raiders, while naval vessels were also being repaired. President Roosevelt referred to the scheme for training 7000 British airmen at United States stations, and stated that iron, machine tools and other essentials were being sent and received in Britain in larger quantities day by day, and increasing supplies of food were being and would be sent. He gave details of the great expansion in the despatch of planes, aeroplane engines, guns, explosives and other materials.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1941, Page 6
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167EXPANDING APACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1941, Page 6
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