Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war years, as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, gaunt, shy John Gilbert Winant lived a hard and nerve-racking life. He came home, after his resignation in March 1946, to accept another hard job for his country-permanent U.S. representative on UNESCO. But last December he asked President Harry Truman to relieve him of his duties. He wanted to "pick up life again as a private citizen in my own country...
F.D.R. brought him to Washington, in 1941 sent him to Great Britain as Ambassador. The English loved absentminded, honest Gil Winant. Once, when asked to make a speech, he stood in agonized silence for four minutes, finally said, softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...World War II started, Cripps sat alone, an independent, in the House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he broke his ten-year rule of teetotalism to drink a toast in champagne with Russian friends. As the Government's special emissary to India, he failed to work out the terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will...
...twelve crystal plates engraved with Audubon birds from U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Douglas...
...profits were enough to cause some viewing with alarm. At the New York Herald Tribune Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, thereby comprising a "new danger to private enterprise here and peace abroad." Many a profit-counter, busy with his books, was hardly bothered by such lofty considerations...