U.S. AMBASSADOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 7

U.S. AMBASSADOR

MR. WINANT FOR LONDON

ABLE MAN FOR BIG TASK

LIBERAL OUTLOOK

.British Official Wireless.)

(Received February 7, 11.20 a.m.)

RUGBY, February 6,

Mr. John G. Winant, whose nomination by President Roosevelt as United States Ambassador to Britain has been submitted to the Senate, will, if the nomination is approved, be welcomed in London both as a man with a wide liberal outlook on international affairs and as a loyal collaborator of Mr. Roosevelt.

As director of the International Labour Office, Mr. Winant was frequently in close contact with members of the British Government and important political figures in this country as a whole, and he will be greeted not as a stranger or even as a newcomer, but as an able man who has changed a very important task for one which in the present circumstances is even more important—the task of interpreting the United States to Britain and Britain to the United States.

I The knowledge he already has of the British character and British institutions, and in particular of the whole background of Labour opinion, will be a valuable asset at a time when all sections of the British public are playing such a crucial role in the war and are anxious to leave the world in no doubt-as to the attitude to Hitler's new order. If Mr. Winant succeeds in maintaining the knowledge in the United States of the British attitude in this respect, so flagrantly misrepresented by German propaganda, this will be the first of services to a cause which it is not doubted he has at heart —United States and British mutual understanding and co-operation in securing the triumphant defeat of ail the forces now menacing the two democracies.