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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...
...been a long time since he had been a private citizen. Gil Winant, a rich man's son, had spent most of his life in some kind of service to his country. As a scraggly youth at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., he had developed a. burning interest in U.S. history. As a Princeton undergraduate he had left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...politician-an idealist and a dismal campaigner. But he burned to help the common man. He was thrice elected Republican Governor of New Hampshire, but when Franklin Roosevelt began the New Deal, Winant disregarded G.O.P. disapproval to back...
...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...