Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Ambassador Winant hurried on to meetings and interviews-with Secretary Hull, Harry Hopkins, Secretaries Stimson and Knox, many others-until 2 every morning...
Partly because the U.S. public does not know John Gilbert Winant very well, extravagant stories about his mission nourished. A shy, sincere man who usually gives the impression of being much more ill at ease than he actually is, he is an effective Ambassador because he has a quality more valuable than any amount of diplomatic training-an imaginative sympathy for the suffering of people with whom he lives...
...Ambassador Winant made his rounds in Washington, the stories about him multiplied. Irritated particularly by one-that the Ambassador had brought word of a peace offer which Britain was considering -President Roosevelt held one of his hottest press conferences in eight years. Glaring sternly at the reporters, the President said he had on his desk copies of two orders sent from Germany to Nazi dupes and Nazi agents in the U.S. One order was to spread the story that Germany had no intention of ever moving against a country in the Western Hemisphere (and the President mentioned Adolf Hitler...
Whatever the Ambassador had brought back, it was not peace talk. The U.S. could no more learn the details of Ambassador Winant's report than it could learn the plans of the British General Staff, but it could learn the general outline of his views...
Soon after the President's blast, Ambassador Winant appeared in Vice President Wallace's office. Besides the Vice President, four Senators were there: Texas' portly Tom Connally, Alabama's tall, drawling Lister Hill, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Georgia's Senator George. The Ambassador is a levelheaded man, and his carefully expressed views about Britain's chances of surviving were not so extreme in either direction as some head lines proclaimed. For two hours he answered questions, talked about what he had heard and what he believed. He said...