Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Soviet Ambassador Fedor Gusev, Britain's Sir William Strang...
...months the three men had been discussing endlessly in the big room at Lancaster House in London. U.S. Ambassador John Winant, Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev and Sir William Strang, the three members of the European Advisory Commission, had held scores of meetings, examined hundreds of proposals, dictated thousands of words of notes, memoranda, dispatches. But to the eagerly watching world the three men seemed no nearer than ever to accomplishing their task-the drawing up of surrender terms for defeated Germany. London's well-informed Economist suspected that the Allies had failed to agree on a joint policy...
...were being talked about and worked for. The President's own list of men acceptable to him, in order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded...
...Conferred with Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant and Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman, remained firmly mum about both conferences...
...Confused Three. Lack of authority to make even minor decisions slowed the Commission to hopscotch pace. Gusev could not agree with Winant on any point without asking Moscow. Usually he got a Soviet counterproposal which Winant had to stall until he could hear from Washington. In spite of all the machinery set up for collaboration, the final collaborators remained the Big Three's Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin). There were signs of real progress toward concrete agreement (see p. 12). If so, the progress was made outside of the Advisory Commission...