Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Winant stepped out of the White House last week as gingerly as a man who feels he is loaded with dynamite and may blow up if anybody bumps into him. He had reason to step warily. Before he left England, the British Government had shown him a confidence that few Ambassadors have received. It turned over to Gil Winant an account of British war plans and British war experiences, as well as analyses of Britain's shortcomings, tragic mistakes, and lessons learned, at a frightful cost, during...
Obviously Ambassador Winant could not talk freely, even to himself. His voice, ordinarily very low, almost died away entirely. Prolonging the agony was the fact that President Roosevelt, resting after his speech, had kept him waiting for four days. When Ambassador Winant, having reported to his chief, eventually emerged from the White House last week, he apologized to reporters, in his slow, pained voice: "It's easy to understand that there is a hesitancy, when a country is at war, to make public statements which might endanger their fighting forces...
...President works like a newspaper copy-desk's man-in-the-slot, farming out assignments to his staff according to their abilities. Through Justice Felix Frankfurter he hears from England's Economist Harold Laski, about the international New Deal; and John G. Winant, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and Ben Cohen work in London toward that dream...
...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...