The answer would be the first option which is it overruled “cash and carry” allowing the US to lend weapons and supplies to countries vigorous to the protection of the US.
It was envisioned to dismiss the weight on US forces and let other countries to protect themselves within their own nation. Hitler was in disarray, and it was not unavoidably by his own selecting, and the associates just couldn't reply at that time. The main recipient to lend lease was Russia.