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The U.S. abandoned all pretense of neutrality with passage of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941.
Lend-Lease = pre-WW2 program for the US to supply weapons to nations fighting Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The Lend-Lease Act was debated for two months before it was passed.
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It is possible he was troubled by something he'd read in the paper earlier that morning— Lend Lease Diapers Used as Turbans by African Sheikhs!† (source)

Definition:

U.S. program, begun before entering WWII, that provided war supplies to countries fighting Germany, Italy, and Japan on the condition that the aid be returned or repaid post-war

Before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed through the Lend-Lease Act so the U.S. could help Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and other Allies fight the Axis powers without formally joining the war at first. Under Lend-Lease, the U.S. "lent" weapons, ships, trucks, food, and other supplies, expecting them to be returned, replaced, or paid for later "in kind." The program greatly strengthened the Allied war effort and signaled that the U.S. was not neutral in practice, even before the attack on Pearl Harbor brought it fully into the war.

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