The proposal was to supplant the Bill with another Bill by which aid to Britain would be supplied out of a credit of $2,000,000,000 The House afterwards tentatively approved a proposal to impose a five-year limit on the powers which the bill grants to
the President to make contracts.
The proposal emanated from Democratic members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was designed to meet protests that the President might enter into contracts before the date on which these powers expired. July 1, 1943, which might bind Congress for 10 years thereat The suggested time limit of five years docs not. however, apply to payments in rubber, tin or other forms of compensation which foreign governments might agree to make to the United States in return for ma-
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