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• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt…
• I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid…
• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and…
• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,…
• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about…
• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they…
• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for…
• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution.…
• There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

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