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...Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong...
...health permitting. But he had been at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital for three weeks with a bad throat; he had needed extended vacations in the last few years. For his place, if he were forced to quit, the dopesters had many candidates: Henry Wallace, Sumner Welles, Ambassador Winant, Under Secretary Stettinius. But as long as Cordell Hull wanted the job, Franklin Roosevelt would let him keep...
...Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Soviet Ambassador Fedor Gusev, Britain's Sir William Strang...
...months the three men had been discussing endlessly in the big room at Lancaster House in London. U.S. Ambassador John Winant, Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev and Sir William Strang, the three members of the European Advisory Commission, had held scores of meetings, examined hundreds of proposals, dictated thousands of words of notes, memoranda, dispatches. But to the eagerly watching world the three men seemed no nearer than ever to accomplishing their task-the drawing up of surrender terms for defeated Germany. London's well-informed Economist suspected that the Allies had failed to agree on a joint policy...
...were being talked about and worked for. The President's own list of men acceptable to him, in order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded...