§ Mr. Stokesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of President Roosevelt's declaration that nations receiving goods under Lend-Lease will be expected to pay for them by goods or other benefits after the war, strict account will in future be kept of services rendered to America under Lend-Lease and an estimate made of those already rendered?
§ Sir J. AndersonNo, Sir. As the late Chancellor of the Exchequer explained in
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