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...Roosevelt, dressed in black, and members of her family heard John G. Winant, wartime ambassador to Great Britian and principal speaker at the memorial ceremony, eulogize her late husband as a man who strove tirelessly for world peace while guiding his own country to certain victory...
Refreshing Change. In London, Gil Winant was a striking contrast to his predecessor, that ruddy salesman, Joe Kennedy. He gangled; his hair straggled down in a black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...things-the blitz, the grinding work of the wartime embassy, the immense task of selling Britain to the U.S., and the U.S. and Britain to Russia-held no such terrors for Ambassador Winant. In high conference he was slow, sure, and overwhelmingly honest. After bombings he walked the streets of London, helping dig people out. The British grew to love his gaunt figure. He talked to them in trains, buses, subways, and ministries, and reported shrewdly to the President-whom most of the world thought of as the real U.S. Ambassador to Britain. To Britain's leaders, Winant plugged...
...effect was neither sudden nor spectacular. The results of his embassy were slow but lasting; they showed in Allied war solidarity, in understanding between nations, and in the lasting impression of America-at-its-best that Gil Winant left in Britain...
...Second only to President Roosevelt, Mr. Winant has seemed to us the personification of the finest part of America's character. We shall miss that tall, thoughtful, awkward-seeming...