Whshington, Mar. 10.
The Lease and Lend Bill which was dramatically passed by the Senate on Saturday, is expected to become law by Wednesday at the latest.
The House of. Representatives is likely to record its acceptance of the Senate's amendments en Tuesday. after which the Bil] will be immediately placed before the President for signature.
"Meanwhile, reports are current in the capital that a three-year programme of aid for Britain, involving the stupendous sum of $10,000,000,000 is being drafted as an immediate sequel to the Senate's approval of the Bill—Reuter.
"At last, a stream of tanks, guns and aeroplanes to help us beat Hitler will begin to flow across the Atlantic," states the "Daily Mail." "President Roosevelt aow sees fulfilment of the realistic policy he quietly initiated before the war begen—defence of democracy through defence of Britain, The majority of two to one-obtained in spite of bitter opposition, shows' how far the United States has travelled under his wise leadership in the past pine months.
"There is nothing now to stop Britein receiving in an ever-rising flood an abundance of supplies which America's enormous productive capaccan turn out. Nothing—except t'e Atlantic, It is one thing to have goods waiting. It is another to get them across. Hitler's biggest aim now will be to sever these vital cor: munications....We may need all th help the United States cen give in the battle of the Atlantic.
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