Mutual Bargain

A few dissenters made futile noises. Then the House of Commons voted a new Mutual Aid Bill, Canadian counterpart of U.S. Lend-Lease. In the coming fiscal year, the Dominion will spend $800,000,000 in Canada to provide material assistance to her Allies.

At the beginning of Mutual Aid's second year. Munitions & Supply Minister C. D. Howe reported:

P: Total Mutual Aid expenditures (up to March 31): $912,000.000. Considering Canada's smaller national income, the amount was proportionately one and a half times as much as the U.S. gave in Lend-Lease.

P: Great Britain got, among other things: 768 planes, 78,585 trucks, 519,552 machine guns and small arms, 551,990,000 rounds of ammunition, 6,679 farm implements, 2,042,000 items of clothing, 1,052 ships. Total value: $723,753,786.96.

P: Shipments to Russia included 13,500 tons of aluminum, 11,700 tons of lead, 1,500 tons of nickel, 120,000 tons of flour, 10,000 tons of wheat. Many Russian merchantmen were serviced and repaired in Canadian ports.

P: Australia got aid worth $20,959,845 (including the training of R.A.A.F. men at Canadian airfields). Other expenditures for China, $4,101,587; the West Indies, $874,478 (all flour); India, $482,192 (all wheat).

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