W. Averell Harriman Quotes

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

  W. Averell Harriman

  Attitude, War, Changed

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• Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

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  Russia, Coke, Drink

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• No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

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  People, Sticks, Congress

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• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

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  Europe, Communist, Economic

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• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

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  Fear, Thinking, World

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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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  War, Leader, Brutality

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• Roosevelt estaba decidido a impedir que Stalin se apoderara de Europa del Este. Pensó que finalmente habían llegado a un acuerdo sobre Polonia. Antes de morir, Roosevelt se dio cuenta de que Stalin había roto el acuerdo.

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  Agreement, Europe, Broken

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• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

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  Leadership, Country, Vision

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• Polonia, por supuesto, era el país clave. Recuerdo que Stalin me dijo que las llanuras de Polonia eran la ruta de invasión de Europa a Rusia y siempre lo habían sido, y por lo tanto tenía que controlar Polonia.

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  Country, Keys, Russia

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• Sin embargo, todo el preámbulo de la segunda ley de autorización del Plan Marshall mostraba la dirección que el Congreso estaba dispuesto a tomar para derribar las barreras dentro de Europa.

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  Europe, Silence, Breaking Down

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• I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

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  Reading, Paris, People

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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.

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  War, Eyebrows, Numbers

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• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

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  War, Europe, Bankers

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• Los dos estábamos de acuerdo en que Stalin estaba decidido a resistir a los alemanes. Nos dijo que nunca les dejaría llegar a Moscú. Pero si se equivocaba, volverían a los Urales y lucharían. Nunca se rendirían.

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  Fighting, Moscow, Determined

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• Las conferencias al más alto nivel son siempre corteses. Los insultos se dejan para los ministros de Asuntos Exteriores.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

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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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  Europe, Eastern Europe, Myth

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

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  Military, War, Needs

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• En cuanto a los rusos, yo pensaba lo contrario; tenían oro suficiente, si querían comprar, y no dependían del comercio internacional. Me parecía que eran más autosuficientes.

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  Self, Eyebrows, Gold

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• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

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  Eyebrows, Advantage, Lease

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