Averell Harriman

Document date: [1971]

Identity Statement

HAEU Reference Code
JMAS-73
Original Reference Code
HST LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
Extent and Medium

8

Physical Medium

Paper

Reference Archivists

Carr, Mary

Content and Structure

Abstract

Interview with Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, 1946-1948, US representative in Europe under the Economic Co-operation Act, 1948-1950 and American representative on NATO committee to study western defence plans. Harriman speaks of his support for European Payments Union (EPU), the Marshall Plan where he states that it was adopted with the idea that both economic and military considerations had to be taken into account. Tells of importance of Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in European integration.

Conditions of Access and Use

Languages

English

Type of Archival Materials

Textual

Allied Materials

Location of Originals

The originals are held in various Archives and Presidential Libraries in the USA

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