Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
Ambassador Winant and Prime Minister Menzies had just spoken in simple, moving terms. John Winant: "I will always think first of the patience, character and courage of the people of Bristol." Robert Menzies: "This is humanity's war." Winston Churchill grimly declared: "The traditions which have come down to us throughout the centuries . . . will enable us most surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which...
...Four Americans, including Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant, signed the exchanges. Biggest problem: finding four fountain pens to present to the Americans. Most fountain-pen factories have been converted to defense production. After much telephoning and shop-combing, four pens were purchased, engraved with the signatories' names...
...Prime Minister raised his glass and turned to the guest of honor, a man with a face gaunt and ascetic enough to be Bunyan's pilgrim-John G. Winant, the newly arrived U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Winston Churchill aimed his toast at the Ambassador, but he drank from his heart not to any man, not to any nation, but to the good issue of a three-dimensional battle: on, over, under the Atlantic waves...
...York before he left, John Winant had said: "I go to England on no special mission," but to the English, at least, his mission had special weight. Part way from Bristol to London the train stopped at a country town. A man in Field Marshal's uniform climbed aboard, shook hands. "I am very glad to welcome you here," said King George VI. As the train started, the nodding, smiling faces of King George, the Duke of Kent and Ambassador Winant could be seen through the windows. Outside London the train stopped again and the party drove away...