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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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