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.

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

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

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.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

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

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