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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...
F.D.R. brought him to Washington, in 1941 sent him to Great Britain as Ambassador. The English loved absentminded, honest Gil Winant. Once, when asked to make a speech, he stood in agonized silence for four minutes, finally said, softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
After his retirement, ten months ago, Winant went back to his house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...
...farewell note has yet been discovered, and Armstrong's family was at a loss to supply any immediate motive for the suicide last night. 'All I can think of is Winant's death,'murmured Slack. "This is just as inexplicable...