Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill heard the news while he was having a quiet supper with U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country house some 25 miles from Downing Street. Winston Churchill picked up the telephone and called an extraordinary session of Parliament for the next afternoon. Then he and Mr. Winant set out for London...
...Working with the British in the U.S. are Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, and the division that handled the reciprocal trade agreements. Working with the British in London is U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden revealed last week that British-U.S. relations are frequently buoyed up by Scotch whiskey. Having told a luncheon party that he saw U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant "almost every evening," he added...
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...