Aid to Russia, 1941-1946; Quotes

“What frightens me is that when a country begins to extend its influence by strong arm methods beyond its borders under the guise of security it is difficult to see how a line can be drawn.
If the policy is accepted that [Russia] has a right to penetrate her immediate neighbors . . . penetration of the next immediate neighbors becomes at a certain time equally logical.

[W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to USSR, Sept 20, 1944]”
― George C. Herring, Aid to Russia, 1941-1946;: Strategy, diplomacy, the origins of the cold war