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Claude Pepper Papers: Available on DigiNole, FSU's Digital Repository

Lend-Lease Act

From the time he entered the United States Senate in 1937 until the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, Senator Claude Pepper was an active spokesman for United States intervention in World War II and aid to the allies to prevent the further spread of war. During those years, Pepper helped shaped our foreign policy through his service on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He and his wife Mildred visited Berlin in 1938 and reported back to President Roosevelt that Adolph Hitler's military campaign threatened the security and peace of the United States and its allies.

After Germany invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia, and attacked England, Pepper urged U.S. involvement in the war. He supported the movement for a military draft. In 1940, he drafted the "Lend-Lease" resolution, designed to provide battleships, warplanes, and other military equipment for Great Britain to defeat the Nazi threat in Europe and to keep the United States out of war. His plan was so controversial that he was hanged in effigy in front of the U.S. Capitol by an isolationist group, and ridiculed in the press. Twice the Senate defeated the resolution, but the legislation was rewritten and finally passed in 1941.

Source: https://www.lib.fsu.edu/sites/default/files/upload/documents/finding_aids-ww2.pdf

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