The Archive · 1941

Bulk of Aid to Britain

The letter also said that the British Empire has received the bulk of our aid. But we also have extended assistance to many other country engaged in the same struggle.

"China and the Netherlands East receiving ever increasing supplies, said the Presi d governments of countries under the Nazi yoke are sharing the programme and also countries of the Western Hemisphet President Roosevelt's letter also said the gallant resistance of the Russian people has been an enormous help to all peoples resisting the Nazi war machine.

"We have been using the energies of our government to make available supplies urgently needed by Russia as a means of defending America," said the letter. "We offer it because we know that piecemeal resistance to aggression is doomed to failure because the ruthless war machine which now dominates th, continent of Europe can be combatted only by the combined efforts of all free peoples."

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