Thanks Wanted

The U.S. spoke up last week to Joseph Stalin, who had said a fortnight ago (TIME, March 1): "The Red Army alone is bearing the whole weight of the war."

At a press conference in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Admiral William H. Standley said: "I have carefully looked for an admission in the Russian press that [the Russians] receive material aid from America, yet I have failed to find any real acknowledgment of it. . . . The Russian people have no opportunity to know they are being helped by the American people."

Several Russian generals had complained that they were getting no U.S. material except trucks at the front. Said Standley: "They are getting plenty of other kinds of war material. If it's not at the front, I don't know what they are doing with it.*

The Ambassador pointedly remarked that a new Lend-Lease bill was before Congress. "The American Congress," he said, "is big-hearted and generous, but if you give it the impression that their help means nothing, there might be a different story."

-At the end of 1942, the U.S. and Britain had consigned 8,600 tanks and 6,174 planes to Russia--the U.S. had sent 85,000 trucks.

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