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May 3, 1941,

By Ernie Bushmiller

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would not be at all sur-pointment at all is the big- He was standing quietly prising if one of the rea- gest compliment that could in a corner watching the sons why John G. Winant have been paid to him. guests while his host and has accepted the post of

For he is a Republican- hostess were searching fran- United States Ambassador to London is that he simply indeed, he was once talked of tically for their "lion" of the couldn't keep away from the as Republican candidate for evening. Battle of Britain.

After all, if you had been

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the Presidency while This inherent modesty is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who one of his greatest assets. has appointed him, is It was one of the things, for example, that secured for him the unprecedented hon- our of a third term as

an American pilot in the last Democrat.

war, and had brought down enemy planes yourself as he

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did, you'd probably feel an Yet although he is a pro- Governor of New Hamp itch to see how the younger minent figure in the opposite shire. generation dealt with the political camp, he enjoys Winant is not given much to same problem.

Roosevelt's complete person- speech-making. What he pre- And if you, like John G. al confidence-a confidence ferred to do was to slip quietly Winant, sincerely believed that dates back over many have a chat with the farmers, into the New Hampshire farms,

learn their troubles and then go They used to meet at back and try to do something confer- about them.

over even more.

Governors'

that it rests with the Demo- years. cracies to ensure that the fearful sacrifices of the past State few years have not been in ences when Roosevelt was of oratory from the new Am- No-we shall have no flights vain, you'd want to conie Governor of New York and-bassador. He would be the first

Winant was Governor of to tell you that he is a

poor In fact, the new Ambassa- New Hampshire, and a close public speaker. dor himself summed up his friendship sprang up.

At home they call the Am views many years ago when But to those who know Lincoln." He's 52, tall-well bassador the "New Hampshire someone asked him what him it is not difficult to ima- over six feet, thin with broad counsel he would give to gine why even his political shoulders and a scholar's stoop, those who were contemplat-opponents succumb to his untidy in his dress. ing "going into oil.”

personality and are eager to But the thing you remember

work with him.

about him is his eyes. Dark and deep set under bushy black eye-

M

ing history for a short time at

He himself went into oil He earned the reputation brows, they have a penetrating very successfully, and this is of being the shyest man in gaze that reminds one irresis his advice:

New York. At Geneva, tibly of those old prints of Abra- The first essential thing, where he was first Assistant ham Lincoln. he said, was that you should Director, then Director, of know. personally the men the International Labour He has been many things in you were associating with; Office, he was probably the his life. A schoolmaster teach- the second that you should most retiring man who ever St Paul's School, Concord, a be on the spot yourself. set foot in the lobbies.

sheepfarmer, newspaper owner, It's no mere accident that But this did not prevent head of a lumber-business, and John G. Winant has been him handling fractious dele--at one time, as I have already selected, at a moment when gates with a disarming sin- said, he made a considerable for- associations between country and his are becom-from winning the loyal co- gers when he comes to this coun

our cerity, nor did it prevent him tune out of oil.

He will not be among stran- ing closer than they have operation of those working try, which he knows well. been for two decades, to re-.with him.

Among his good friends in present the United States The first time I met him Britain are Mr Ernest Bevin, "on the spot."

To begin with, the fact given in his honour soon Eden, and other members of the cocktail party admires greatly, Mr Anthony that he was offered the ap- after his arrival in Geneva. Cabinet.

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whom he met in Geneva and

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THE of appear. He is Jasper Mas many lives.

war-time camouflage," an in-in flight. kelyne, now Lieutenant Mas-.

greater performance than Gloucester Bldg., atructor told me. kelyne of the Royal Engineers, a Most of the men at the school. "Through the white net cur Noel Pemberton - Billing, anything in Germany, he Kowloon Depot, camouflage officer, and one of have been painters or designers tains you several attached to our forces in of some kind. Artists have negress in her black dress-but his new book ("Defence And: "There have, as yet,

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Lieut Maskelyne, instead of Others have been architects, This teaches our men that any Against the Night Bomber," been, no serious mass raids making beautiful girls vanish on doctors, stained-glass designers, light-coloured object shows Robert Hale, 2s. 6d.), con-on this country, the stage, is using his skill and picture restorers, and theatrical through a camouflage net unless centrates chiefly on two practical craftsmanship to ren- designers.

it is darkened."

der men, tanks, and guns less For all its intensely practical Diagrams show how every methods of flying with heavy foolish talk by those who "There has been much nature, the camouflage school is unit of the Army-anti-aircraft loads. One, the "slip-wing, feel it their duty to guard Practical common sense is the full of surprises. It has a "Hall guns, field artillery infantry gets off with a large "power the public morale by telling

on the ground; and the students glider" on its back. The two

conspicuous.

secret of camouflage.

of Wonders,' and an "En- leave their unmistakable marks I learnt that at this Camou- chanted Park.

flage School of the British Army

tho, existenco of which has its filled with models showing them.

The first vast dining-hall are told how best to obscure part when safe height is it fairy stories of the turn-

self been very carefully camou- vividly how flaged.

"Our is rendering

reached.

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naturo practises camouflage for self-protection, Out in the "Enchanted Park") and how men can copy nature in I almost rubbed my eyes when I

The other is a "towed saw bits of tree and which

Ju-Bad-Man-No-See-Witch Dou- roured vehicles, and soldiers clumps of frass, and miles of light, hooks on to a big tor idoh," the commandant ex- almost invisible from ground earth move, stand up and be machine, which fuels its

plained to me..

"We are all against the popu

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ing back of bombers by (anti-aircraft) fire.

"The fighter has proved itself, the only defence against the night raider. and air,

come living mon-in ingenious Stuffed fishes," birds, and snipers' suits. lar conception of a bottle of beasts are shown against their

tanks, and tows it round "Does any intelligent per- camouflage-and it all disap-natural surroundings

These are only the more ple- until it is required. almost turesque moments of the long

son dare to suggest that the pears. The whole answer to invisible. Movable modela de- and detailed course, which in- Thus, when

enemy have never been con- the camouflage problem is teach- monstrate how men and tanks cludes close training in the best quired, the fighter has height fused as to what city they!

action is re- ing men to use their intelli- can vanish into their surround- use of the many kinds of camou gence."

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have The Camouflage School is one judgment are used."

Research is constantly anding new camouflage materials.

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