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...against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt for a parley with Ambassador John G. Winant. That evening, pouch-eyed, gaunt, battered, he climbed out of a parlor car at Washington and went directly to the White House...
Last week President Roosevelt picked John Gilbert Winant as the new Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Nobody claimed that Mr. Vinant met all those specifications. A tall, awkward, slow-speaking, artless man of 51, Ambassador Winant has long been halfon, half-off the U. S. public scene, with his friends constantly predicting a great role for him just as he would quietly step out of the limelight. Background: wealthy New York family; St. Paul's School ('08); Princeton ('13); captain of a U. S. observation squadron in World War I; master...
Through all these stages admirers have been waiting for Gil Winant to live up to the promise they found in him. Through all of them he has remained the same: a man of slow gestures, always digging his hands in his pockets or twisting and turning awkwardly, as if he had caught his arms in the lining of his coat sleeves, while he expresses flawless liberal sentiments in a slow, pained voice. His friends marvel at Ambassador Winant's dress, wonder how he manages to keep his trousers so impressed, where he finds so many pale blue shirts with...
...late 1933, when he was mentioned as a possible liberal Republican Presidential candidate. Those hopes promptly evaporated when he disappeared into obscurity as the New Deal's appointee to the well-meaning, ineffectual International Labor Office at Geneva. Last week there were no doubts expressed about Ambassador Winant's suitability for the London post on the scores of manner, beliefs, earnestness, sympathy with labor; his well-wishers just worried about his slowness of speech, abstractedness, and zeal for holding conferences...
...that Franklin Roosevelt had discarded the conventional specifications. The reasons he had done so were equally obvious : Mr. Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens...