Item COLD WAR 27/80 - Transcript of interview with Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, daughter of diplomat Averell Harriman, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, daughter of (William) Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the USSR, 1943-1946, and to the UK, 1946, Special Assistant to US President Harry S Truman, 1950-1951, relating to morale and conditions on Harriman's arrival in the USSR, 1943; the Soviet regulations to prevent ordinary Soviet citizens from meeting and socialising with foreign nationals, 1943-1945; co-operation between the UK, USA and USSR, 1943-1945; the US lend-lease programme, and the supply of US armaments and equipment to the USSR, 1943-1945; US Ambassador Harriman's reaction to Soviet non-intervention in the Warsaw Rising, Aug 1944; the Allied Teheran conference, codenamed EUREKA, to co-ordinate strategy between the USSR, the USA and the UK, Teheran, Iran, 28 Nov-1 Dec 1943; the relationship between Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943-1945; discussions on the foundation of the United Nations Organisation, Teheran, Iran, Nov-Dec 1943; the Allied Yalta conference, codenamed ARGONAUT, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; US President Roosevelt's poor state of health during the Yalta conference, Feb 1945; the appearance and character of Stalin at Yalta, Feb 1945; discussions on the postwar future of Poland, Yalta, Feb 1945; the visit to Moscow, USSR, by US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, Aug 1945; the relationship between Eisenhower and Soviet Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, Aug 1945; the Soviet intervention in the war against Japan, 9 Aug 1945; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the settlement of the postwar borders of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Italy, Potsdam, Germany, Jul-Aug 1945; the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. 31pp