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W. Averell Harriman

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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 justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.


— W. Averell Harriman


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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.


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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.


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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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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 would have held.


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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.


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He held that position for the remainder of Johnson's presidency. He divorced her in 1928 and about a year later he married Marie Norton Whitney who left her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to marry him. While in Berlin he noted the tight security imposed by Soviet military authorities and the quick beginnings of a program of reparations by which the Soviets were stripping out German industry.

Ambassador to Britain. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson both times. S.

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