Geoffrey Roberts
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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First in London, then in Moscow.
That's the way Roosevelt liked to work.
through personal representatives, because he found it to be much more effective in getting what he wanted to be done.
So he's often bypassing the State Department.
So there are some kind of tensions in London between Avril in his role as resource representative and the American ambassador and the State Department in that context.
And then, of course, when he goes to Moscow, now he's the ambassador.
He's part of the State Department, etc.
But he doesn't behave the way of any kind of normal ambassador.
He really kind of shakes up the whole American diplomatic operation in Moscow.
And he does it very effectively.
Harriman is a very, very effective representative for the United States in Moscow during the war.
He gets on very well with the Soviet leadership, with Stalin.
you know, is enormously effective in practical ways in cementing the Soviet-American relationship during the war.
And Caffey's part of that as well, because, of course, it's not just a question of politics and bureaucracy.
It's also social, psychological, personal, right?
Yeah, there's a whole set of interpersonal
dynamics going on within the Grand Alliance at the very top levels, right?
In Moscow, everywhere, in fact, during the war.
And the kind of the CAFI-AVRO partnership is very, very central to the success of those dynamics and the contribution that they make to keeping the Grand Alliance together during the war.
Because it wasn't the most natural alliance in the world, was it?
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