"Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking……" — W. Averell Harriman
"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."
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W. Averell Harriman
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26 Quotes by W. Averell Harriman
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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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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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