The destroyers-for-bases agreement let Roosevelt show a concrete return for American matériel while Britain received escorts. Shared interests could sustain cooperation even when each government sought a favourable bargain. The comparison with a repeat commercial relationship explains how providing something useful to a partner could also serve the supplier. Aid moved in both directions: Flower-class corvettes are given as an example of ships reaching the United States from Britain. Such exchanges complicate an account of Allied assistance as a one-way flow.
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Lend-Lease as an exchange of Allied interests
Destroyers for bases and reverse Lend-Lease illustrate cooperation in which both countries received practical benefits.