Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war years, as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, gaunt, shy John Gilbert Winant lived a hard and nerve-racking life. He came home, after his resignation in March 1946, to accept another hard job for his country-permanent U.S. representative on UNESCO. But last December he asked President Harry Truman to relieve him of his duties. He wanted to "pick up life again as a private citizen in my own country...
...profits were enough to cause some viewing with alarm. At the New York Herald Tribune Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, thereby comprising a "new danger to private enterprise here and peace abroad." Many a profit-counter, busy with his books, was hardly bothered by such lofty considerations...
Married. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...
...Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. 4. John G. Winant...
Englishmen with a hard word for Herbert Agar are hard to find. U.S. Ambassador John Winant borrowed Lieut. Commander Agar from the Navy late in 1943 to convince doubting Britons that the U.S. would be not only the arsenal of democracy but a provider of men. Later, as London OWI head, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Herbert Agar did a notable job of helping to dissolve British-U.S. differences. He exhorted factory workers in their own language, patched up tiffs between British mayors and U.S. troops. On first meeting, people might think Herbert Agar was also soft...