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...Ambassador and Mrs. Winant took a modest four-room flat in London, stood on the roof watching the brutal bombing attacks of 1941's spring. Often he walked all night through the streets when bombers were overhead, talking to the people...
England liked Gil Winant, and showed it by dropping him out of public notice. At a luncheon shortly after his arrival, the crowd insisted on a speech; he stood up, shifted his weight from one long leg to the other through four straight minutes of agonizing silence, finally said softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place." After that they usually let him alone...
...arrived in an England that had grown tired of ruddy Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's cheerful salesmanship. And Kennedy had slept out bombings safely in the country, had returned to the U.S. to talk a sort of anti-British isolationism. Winant's modesty, his sincerity, washed the bad taste out of England's mouth...
...Britain's leaders that Winant had been sent; it was to them that he plugged away at his theme of a democratic post-war world. He had long talks with Winston Churchill; met Anthony Eden several times a week; consulted labor leader Ernest Bevin; became fast friends with such Britons as Author-Professor Harold J. Laski, Sir Stafford Cripps, Press Lords Camrose and Kemsley, the WVS's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, one of England's most influential women...
...Goal. Winant's slow-spoken, slowly thought speeches showed what he was driving at: "The great mass of common men . . . want a friendly, civilized world of free peoples in which Christian virtues and moral values are not spurned as decadent and outmoded, a world where honest work is recognized and a man can own himself...