Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's Lublin lackeys with a government which would be fairly representative and suit the U.S. and Britain as well as the U.S.S.R. After a month of negotiation in Moscow, Molotov had not given an inch to British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. They wanted an honestly reorganized government, representing all Poles except those hopelessly hostile to Russia. Mr. Molotov was willing to enlarge the government, but only with Poles acceptable to the original Lubliners...
According to the Mission's letterheads (though not in fact), the Mission had a staff of doctors and nurses, listed an honorary committee which included (without their knowledge or consent) Jack Dempsey, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Ralph W. Budd and other big names. Sometimes, in lighter vein, the missioners got money for their charities by selling punchboards -all of them well rigged against the player...
...Three committee appointed at Yalta - U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov - failed to agree in , its first three meetings. But the talks continued: after Yalta, Moscow was in no mood to brush off the U.S. and Britain...
Aware that somewhat vacuous Ambassador Harriman needed all the help he could get, the State Department reinforced him with its No. 1 expert on Poland, chubby Elbridge Durbrow, who left Washington for Moscow last fortnight. Young (41), capable Mr. Durbrow is no diplomatic giant, but he knows Poland and he understands the Russians...
...start, the negotiators discovered that the Yalta agreement to broaden the Warsaw Government meant one thing to Molotov, another to Clark Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...