Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yards away, at No. 6, another plaque marks, the bomb-battered, 4½-story mansion where Ambassador Walter Hines Page worked himself to death trying to get the U.S. into World War I. At No. I Grosvenor Square, housed in a massive, brick-faced concrete & steel structure, are the headquarters of Lewis Williams Douglas, 46th U.S. envoy* to the Court of St. James...
...morning he had a sadder duty. Sitting in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lew Douglas heard the memorial service for the late Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, to thousands of wartime Britons, the shy, gaunt symbol of U.S. help, a man Britain will not forget...
...director of the International Labor Organization, Winant visited the front during the Battle of France in World War II, left Paris the day before the Germans entered, saw the British soldiers arriving from Dunkirk, saw something of the early bombings of England. (He saw much more as Ambassador...
...enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...
...other side of Ambassador Winant's task was to interpret to the British the complications of U.S. policy and procedure. This seems (although he does not say so) one of the most miserable jobs on earth. The British thought that each anti-Nazi speech by the President or a member of the Cabinet would be followed by a declaration of war. It also seems to have become increasingly difficult for Winant to speak of U.S. aid when he knew how small was the rate of U.S. production. Between the lines of Letter from Grosvenor Square...