Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant landed in England Saturday with John G. Winant, the new United States Ambassador to Great Britain, and both were greeted by King George before they reached London...
...against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt for a parley with Ambassador John G. Winant. That evening, pouch-eyed, gaunt, battered, he climbed out of a parlor car at Washington and went directly to the White House...
Married. Constance Winant, 20, only daughter of Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, student at the university in Lima; and Carlos Valando, 22, Peruvian scientist; at Chincha, Peru. They flew to the U. S. for a second ceremony before Ambassador Winant leaves for London...
...John G. Winant...
...that Franklin Roosevelt had discarded the conventional specifications. The reasons he had done so were equally obvious : Mr. Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens...