"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions……" — W. Averell Harriman
"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States."
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W. Averell Harriman
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26 Quotes by W. Averell Harriman
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland.…
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I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it…
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He…
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export…
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader.…
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to…
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy,…
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not…
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a…
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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