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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
"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."

Business

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W. Averell Harriman
"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."

Disaster

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W. Averell Harriman
"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia."

Politics

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W. Averell Harriman
"The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them."

Trade

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W. Averell Harriman
"I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over."

War

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W. Averell Harriman
"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."

Movies

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W. Averell Harriman
"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."

War

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W. Averell Harriman
"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."

Politics

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W. Averell Harriman
"The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight."

Attitude

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W. Averell Harriman
"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."

Fight

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