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...Ambassador Winant made his rounds in Washington, the stories about him multiplied. Irritated particularly by one-that the Ambassador had brought word of a peace offer which Britain was considering -President Roosevelt held one of his hottest press conferences in eight years. Glaring sternly at the reporters, the President said he had on his desk copies of two orders sent from Germany to Nazi dupes and Nazi agents in the U.S. One order was to spread the story that Germany had no intention of ever moving against a country in the Western Hemisphere (and the President mentioned Adolf Hitler...
Whatever the Ambassador had brought back, it was not peace talk. The U.S. could no more learn the details of Ambassador Winant's report than it could learn the plans of the British General Staff, but it could learn the general outline of his views...
Soon after the President's blast, Ambassador Winant appeared in Vice President Wallace's office. Besides the Vice President, four Senators were there: Texas' portly Tom Connally, Alabama's tall, drawling Lister Hill, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Georgia's Senator George. The Ambassador is a levelheaded man, and his carefully expressed views about Britain's chances of surviving were not so extreme in either direction as some head lines proclaimed. For two hours he answered questions, talked about what he had heard and what he believed. He said...
...British opinion is divided about Rudolf Hess. But Ambassador Winant believes he fled in fear of his life, as the German military forces took more & more power, and old Nazi politicos like Hess were forced to take a back seat...
People who saw Ambassador Winant found it easier to fathom his feelings about the U.S. attitude toward war than about Britain's chances. He was obviously depressed by the U.S. attitude. U.S. citizens talked a lot about British morale. They did not understand that Britons who could keep a stiff upper lip in their own defeats were disheartened by news which the U.S. took for granted. It shocked them to learn that American automobile production, in the first three months of 1941, was up almost 20% over the same period of 1940-for Britons had learned the fatal cost...