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...dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
Ambassador Winant and Prime Minister Menzies had just spoken in simple, moving terms. John Winant: "I will always think first of the patience, character and courage of the people of Bristol." Robert Menzies: "This is humanity's war." Winston Churchill grimly declared: "The traditions which have come down to us throughout the centuries . . . will enable us most surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which...
...attempt to secure the granary of the Ukraine and the oil fields of the Caucasus [both in Russia] as a German means of gaining the resources wherewith to wear down the English-speaking world." To another face in the gallery-the gaunt face of U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant-the Prime Minister addressed his most urgent words: "But, after all, everything turns on the Battle of the Atlantic, which is proceeding with growing intensity . . . the Battle . . . must be won not only in the factories and shipyards but upon the blue water. ... It will indeed be disastrous if the great masses...
When Winston Churchill, in company with U.S. Ambassador Winant, visited heavily bombed Swansea, a docker chided him for not carrying his gas mask. Churchill replied that it was in the car. "That's not the point, sir," said the man. "You should be carrying it." Churchill sent for the mask, slung it over his shoulder, said: "I shall carry it from...
...Four Americans, including Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant, signed the exchanges. Biggest problem: finding four fountain pens to present to the Americans. Most fountain-pen factories have been converted to defense production. After much telephoning and shop-combing, four pens were purchased, engraved with the signatories' names...