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Fact is that Lord Halifax has a fine set of those British virtues which the U.S. least understands. So he is considered a symbol of British aristocracy, of the Tories, of feudal England, although he is probably more representative of contemporary England than U.S. Ambassador John Winant is representative of contemporary U.S. life. Many a U.S. citizen fears the influence of British aristocracy, of British stuffiness in U.S. life, as many a Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp...
Ambassador John Gilbert Winant is almost as unpressed as Abraham Lincoln. Last week the Ambassador confessed his shortcomings...
...answer Pope Pius XII had given to President Roosevelt's message on war-&-peace aims, the President's envoy, Myron Charles Taylor, last week changed his plans and flew from Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
...British pledged themselves last week not to take advantage of Lend-Lease by using it to maintain their foreign trade. An agreement was negotiated by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant. The agreement was published as a White Paper, in which the British promised to limit their export business during World War II to the minimum necessary to continue the war effort...
That many a well-meaning, or ill-meaning, U.S. citizen was working for peace behind the scenes was too well known to bear denial. After Ambassador John Gilbert Winant had flown from London to Washington, the Axis radio began barking rumors that the British Government was considering peace. President Roosevelt denied it, laid the blame where it belonged...