Concern over security issues prevented FDR and his administration from disclosing certain information to Congress. Nevertheless, Congress had the right to be informed on the progress of the programs established to increase the nation’s military might, FDR stated: “New circumstances are constantly be getting new needs for our safety. I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have begun. I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now an actual war with aggressor nations.” Senator Harry Truman supported Roosevelt’s Lend-lease plan to rebuild and …show more content…
It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.” Roosevelt concluded his speech by beseeching a global society that would stand unified and oppose those who seek world domination, and the destruction of democracy. FDR desired a “world order… of foreign countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society,” he continued by stating, “this nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts… and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere… To that high concept there can be no and save …show more content…
R. 1776” and the Senate majority leader Alben Berkeley introduced the bill as S. 275. From the outset, the House bill whose number signified its patriotic nature had become a point of contention. Some Americans expressed concern. Suggesting that America had declared its independence from Britain in 1776 and now through H. R. 1776, the nation, and its legislators were being asked to rejoin the British Empire. Upon the introduction of the Lend-lease bill, Senator Harry Truman rationalized that in both houses of Congress issues with its proposal were going about to be raised by isolationists and interventionists