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Ambassador Winant is coming home this week to report to the President. He will report on the progress of a relationship and a vision: war and post-war collaboration between the U.S. and Britain, some plan now unformed and unnamed, to build a better world. In such a world, in such a union the U.S. and Britain must meet each other with more than words, handshakes or good intentions...
John Gilbert Winant, believer in the brotherhood of man, knew better...
Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...master at St. Paul's had such an influence as Gil Winant. His shaggy, outthrust head, his dark burning eyes made those who saw him think of Lincoln. His young pupils found themselves wishing he had been born in a log cabin, were convinced that he would be President some day. They did not know whether this gauche, inarticulate teacher was a great man; but he made them sure that great men existed...
...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...