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...January 1941, Roosevelt summoned him to Washington, spent the day questioning him about conditions in Europe. Winant, three times Republican Governor of New Hampshire, had urged Roosevelt to run for a third term: "My appeal to him was that we were facing war, that he had a greater hold on the people of the democratic world than any other statesman of his time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough...
...Work. Winant believed that the British people would stand up under the bombing, and his task became one of selling his thesis to his superiors. (He pays a tribute to General Tooey Spaatz, who was sent to London by Roosevelt to measure Britain's chance of survival: "No man in the United States had a more accurate evaluation of the strength of the German air force...
...other side of Ambassador Winant's task was to interpret to the British the complications of U.S. policy and procedure. This seems (although he does not say so) one of the most miserable jobs on earth. The British thought that each anti-Nazi speech by the President or a member of the Cabinet would be followed by a declaration of war. It also seems to have become increasingly difficult for Winant to speak of U.S. aid when he knew how small was the rate of U.S. production. Between the lines of Letter from Grosvenor Square...
...Winant was at Chequers on Dec. 7, 1941, having already learned through Intelligence sources that two Japanese convoys, 63 transports and warships, had been sighted off Cambodia. He found Prime Minister Churchill at lunch time, walking up & down outside the entrance door. The British feared a Japanese attack on Siam or British territory, in which case they would be forced into an Asiatic war without...
...Winant: "I can't answer that. . . . Only the Congress has the right to declare...