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Events on Monday 2 September 1940 1
1940Destroyers-for-bases dealThe US gives Britain 50 destroyers for base rightsOn 2 September the United States agreed to transfer 50 old destroyers to the Royal Navy. In return it received 99-year leases on bases in British territories in the Caribbean and Newfoundland. The deal marked a clear move away from American neutrality.