Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...
Ambassadors Winant and Gusev worked as part-time Commissioners, but for Sir William it was a full-time job. Ethnographers, geographers, military advisers worked too. At Moscow's insistence, the Commission functioned in deepest secrecy. Even the name of the chief of the Russian advisory staff was withheld...
...With British Minister of State Richard Law, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, Anthony Eden...
...cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...