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...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
Another came to us via a Carnegie Traveling Fellowship and a job under John Winant at the International Labor office in Geneva; one prepared at college for a diplomatic career; another ran a hospital clinic in New York for four years; two were on the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg...
...from America, a crowded House of Commons heard Eden's announcement of the treaty. Mrs. Churchill, Mme. Maisky and Mrs. Eden, in light spring coats against the chill, windy sunshine outside, sat together in the Ladies' Gallery, while across on the right Maisky was joined by Ambassador Winant in the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery. Observers believed that if Churchill had made the statement he would have aroused the House to more enthusiasm than the rather pedantic, high-voiced reading of the impeccable Eden. Said one political correspondent: "If it had been an Admiralty statement, the old man would...
...call on the State Department in Washington. He held no press conferences. Newsmen did not even know he was there. But he did see Henry Wallace, John G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Philip Murray and William Green, who were all enthusiastic for a Hemisphere Labor Front against the Axis. Only person who did not warm to Lombardo was Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...President, Ambassador Winant would report great progress on the British front for his great post-war dream. He would hear, in return, discouraging news from the home front. But Gil Winant would certainly not give up. He believes in difficult things. He said once: "It is never easy for one country to understand another country...