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...Winant: "Good God, you can't declare war on a radio announcement...
...Winant: "I will call up the President by telephone and ask him what the facts...
...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...
What sustained men in those days was a faith, in the words of John Winant, that those who suffered and died did so for the common good of the free people of the earth who should come after them. There were moments in that period when there was no other resource but that faith, when the sands in the hourglass seemed to have run out and all would soon be over. Had there been disillusionment then, it would have been fatal...
...Winant's own final and fatal disillusionment is nowhere hinted at in his book; it is a call to faith, by a man who had crucially asserted...