The Soviet Challenge and American Policy
A trusted aide to Franklin D. Roosevelt, AVERELL HARRIMAN was sent to the U.S.S.R. as chairman of a mission in 1941, as the President’s representative in the first strategic talks with Stalin and Churchill in 1942, and as our Ambassador from 1943 to 1946. His analysis of Russian motives and policy, as the Yalta papers reveal, marks him as the first to warn Washington of the Soviet threat. In the article which follows he discusses the new Kremlin line and the inadequacy of U.S. action to meet it.