868.24/121: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (MacVeagh)
59. Your No. 72, February 12, 2 p.m. The Prime Minister’s appeal is, of course, receiving our earnest and sympathetic consideration. You may inform him that the so-called Lend-Lease Bill now before the Congress and which has been passed by the House of Representatives and by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, permits in its present form the President to supply the materials of war to those nations which are now the victims of aggression or which are threatened with aggression.
Steps are being taken to create an organization to consider requests for such materials, and the needs of Greece, which have been brought to our attention by the Greek Government, will be referred to that organization.