#euro

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. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#also #amount #banker #board #certain

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. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#aid #available #europe #give #had

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. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#after #became #business #certain #clear

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. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#disaster #economic #encourage #europe #felt

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#been #control #country #course #europe

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#eastern #eastern europe #europe #every #every day

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#barriers #breakdown #europe #eventually #feet

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#france #harvard #i #lot #me

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #europe #france #india #indies

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. ↗

— Max Hastings

#colleagues #dealt #disciplined #found #god