1941.03.15 “Careful, Samuel! He’s a Shrewd Customer.”
Unknown artist
11 x 14 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

Lend-Lease, enacted on March 11, 1941, was FDR’s strategy to provide military aid to Europe and the Soviet Union without (formally) breaking the US Neutrality Acts and side-stepping the radical non-interventionists who feared that the Great Depression had its roots in the debts racked up during WW1.