Editing Lend-Lease (section)

===Administration===
Roosevelt made sure that Lend-Lease policies were supportive of his foreign policy goals by putting his top aide [[Harry Hopkins]] in effective control of the program.<ref name="Christopher D. O'Sullivan 2014 53"/> In terms of administration, the president established the Office of Lend-Lease Administration during 1941, headed by steel executive [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.|Edward R. Stettinius]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.38937 "America Reports On Aid To Allies etc. (1942)."] ''[[Universal Newsreel]],'' 1942. Retrieved: February 22, 2012.</ref> In September 1943, he was promoted to Undersecretary of State, and [[Leo Crowley]] became director of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]], which was given responsibility for Lend-Lease.

Lend-Lease aid to the USSR was nominally managed by Stettinius. Roosevelt's Soviet Protocol Committee was dominated by Harry Hopkins and General John York, who were totally sympathetic to the provision of "unconditional aid". Few Americans objected to Soviet aid until 1943.<ref>{{harvnb|Weiss|1996|p=220}}</ref>

The program was gradually terminated after [[Victory in Europe Day|V-E Day]]. In April 1945, Congress voted that it should not be used for post-conflict purposes, and in August 1945, after [[Surrender of Japan|Japan surrendered]], the program was ended.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Nhq1g1WYmEC&pg=PA390 |title=Britain in Transition: The Twentieth Century |author=Alfred F. Havighurst |page=390 |date= 1985|publisher=University of Chicago Press |access-date=December 30, 2016|isbn=978-0226319711 }}</ref>
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