ABSTRACT
Instead of offering at once to the country and Congress a program for the solution of this problem, President Roosevelt began to discuss the subject with journalists, and he continued this practice after a bill providing for aid to the Allies had appeared in Congress and had been taken under consideration. The chief question for the President, at the press conference, seemed to be some method of enabling the Allies as beneficiaries of lend-lease to replace the munitions and goods they were to receive on loan or lease. This chapter discusses many controversial points in Congress during the hearings and debates on the Lend-Lease Bill in January, February, and March, 1941. During the debates in the House of Representatives and the Senate, supporters of the Lend-Lease Bill repeatedly based their case on the ground that it was a measure calculated to provide defense and peace for the United States.
