Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. — 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
