The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

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.

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.

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.

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

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