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...dingy brick wall of No. 9 Grosvenor Square, where London workmen are still repairing blitz damage, there is an inconspicuous blackened plaque: "In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785-March 1788, afterwards second President of the United States...
Written in the form of a letter to an old friend, Letter from Grosvenor Square tells a little of what was not said at that time. It is a simple, forthright account of Winant's work in London, from February 1941 to Pearl Harbor. It is a very good book, honest, unassuming, completely sincere...
Experience. Letter from Grosvenor Square also throws a good deal of light on the obscurities of Winant's character and life. When he left college (Princeton 1913), he studied with General Arthur L. Conger, afterwards head of G-2 under Pershing. General Conger was one of the greatest U.S. authorities on Prussian militarism, and a man General Marshall considered to have been among the best brains in the Army...
...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 one can see the misery of an honest and kind-hearted man hailed as a savior by a suffering people and acutely conscious of his limited ability to help them...
Purpose. Winant wrote Letter from Grosvenor Square to counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed...