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Lend-Lease Act
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