It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
