Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LETTER FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE (279 pp.)-John Gilbert Winant-Houghton Mifflin...
...death three weeks ago, by his own hand, of onetime Ambassador John Gilbert Winant gave a tragic urgency to the message of this book. Winant took his life in despair; yet he left behind this reaffirmation of a faith-the faith that had sustained the people of Great Britain (and the U.S. citizens who tried to aid them) in the months before Pearl Harbor...
Written in the form of a letter to an old friend, Letter from Grosvenor Square tells a little of what was not said at that time. It is a simple, forthright account of Winant's work in London, from February 1941 to Pearl Harbor. It is a very good book, honest, unassuming, completely sincere...
...course of it, Winant does more to re-establish the reputation of Franklin Roosevelt than all the fevered praise of the writers of their recollections of him, and to recall him as he seemed then-not the toast-drinker of Yalta, or the self-righteous social reformer, but the determined advocate of aid to a Great Britain that was fighting for its life...
Experience. Letter from Grosvenor Square also throws a good deal of light on the obscurities of Winant's character and life. When he left college (Princeton 1913), he studied with General Arthur L. Conger, afterwards head of G-2 under Pershing. General Conger was one of the greatest U.S. authorities on Prussian militarism, and a man General Marshall considered to have been among the best brains in the Army...