Consequently, the British Supply Council was informed that Roosevelt would announce at his next press conference that, “as a precautionary measure, immediate shipments of Lend-Lease materials to the British Empire were temporarily suspended pending a rapid examination of our most pressing requirements in the light of the Japanese attack.” In order to demonstrate to the administration’s isolationist opponents that Britain was making every effort to be helpful, the president would also publicize that Churchill “was fully aware of the advisability of such a step” and that his government “had
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