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...Conferred with Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant and Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman, remained firmly mum about both conferences...
...Secret Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...
Ambassadors Winant and Gusev worked as part-time Commissioners, but for Sir William it was a full-time job. Ethnographers, geographers, military advisers worked too. At Moscow's insistence, the Commission functioned in deepest secrecy. Even the name of the chief of the Russian advisory staff was withheld...
...Confused Three. Lack of authority to make even minor decisions slowed the Commission to hopscotch pace. Gusev could not agree with Winant on any point without asking Moscow. Usually he got a Soviet counterproposal which Winant had to stall until he could hear from Washington. In spite of all the machinery set up for collaboration, the final collaborators remained the Big Three's Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin). There were signs of real progress toward concrete agreement (see p. 12). If so, the progress was made outside of the Advisory Commission...
...With British Minister of State Richard Law, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, Anthony Eden...