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...capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations at the conference in refusing permission for Spain to participate in international control of narcotics. John G. Winant, American representative to the meetings, who voted to exclude Spain on the narcotics question and to include her in the Aviation Organization, lamely explained his anomalous stand by stating that "the situation with regard to Picao (Provisional International Aviation Organization) is quite different...
...readers why Ambassador Harriman gave his cocktail party. The party was a long overdue and valuable contribution to Embassy morale and Anglo-American friendship in London. It was also a spectacular and successful announcement to London that the austere regime of Mr. Harriman's predecessor, John Winant, was ended...
...London gaunt, shy U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant never gave a party unless he had to. He lived in a quiet house in Mayfair and turned his magnificent Morgan-donated Prince's Gate mansion into a dormitory for girl clerks...
...last week it was the Fourth of July; Winant and the girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy...
...countrys only four-time president, Winant said, was "brave, steadfast, one who dared to see the facts, to face them and to act--one who believed, who hoped...