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...Prime Minister raised his glass and turned to the guest of honor, a man with a face gaunt and ascetic enough to be Bunyan's pilgrim-John G. Winant, the newly arrived U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Winston Churchill aimed his toast at the Ambassador, but he drank from his heart not to any man, not to any nation, but to the good issue of a three-dimensional battle: on, over, under the Atlantic waves...
...consist of four Cabinet members: State, War, Navy, Treasury. This setup would keep the defense and aid-to-Britain programs directly under the President, would permit straight-line production by the single-order system: Britain to the Treasury to Army and/or Navy to Britain, under State Department counsel, with Winant, Cohen & Harriman as London receivers and order placers...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
With quiet reserve, the Ambassador posed for news cameras, reviewed his guard of honor. To interviewers shy Mr. Winant said he hadn't much to say, bit his lip, pawed the ground and jerked out: "I'm glad to be here. There's no place I'd rather be than in England." His harassed sincerity contrasted with the smooth smiles of his predecessor Joe Kennedy, who would rather be almost anywhere than in England...
...York before he left, John Winant had said: "I go to England on no special mission," but to the English, at least, his mission had special weight. Part way from Bristol to London the train stopped at a country town. A man in Field Marshal's uniform climbed aboard, shook hands. "I am very glad to welcome you here," said King George VI. As the train started, the nodding, smiling faces of King George, the Duke of Kent and Ambassador Winant could be seen through the windows. Outside London the train stopped again and the party drove away...