By Alison R. Holmes, J. Rofe
Covering the interval 1938 to 2008, The Embassy in Grosvenor sq. explores the position of the embassy within the Anglo-American 'special relationship', either by way of transatlantic affairs and problems with overseas relations.
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Churchill, when they received the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the event that really sparked the Prime Minister’s transatlantic connection with President Roosevelt. Despite playing an important role in coordinating a number of wartime conferences, being part of the commission which decided the zones of Allied occupation, and being resident in London for the United Nations opening meetings which took place there, Winant was not considered a prominent figure in wartime diplomacy. The same could not be said of Winant’s successor.
Kennedy stated, ‘instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they [the democracies and dictatorships] could advantageously bend their energies toward solving their common problems by an attempt to re-establish good relations on a world basis’. These words troubled Hull. ‘The Secretary is very upset over the effect of Kennedy’s recent speech’, Jay Pierrepont Moffat noted (the State Department’s Chief of the Division of European Affairs). ’53 Kennedy’s explanation failed to quell a passionate reaction from the press.
P. 191. 29. ‘Art: The Maturing Modern’, Time Magazine, 2 July 1956, available at: http://www. html. 30. Loeffler, The Architecture of Diplomacy, p. 195. 31. , p. 196. 32. , p. 201. 33. , p. 200. 34. , pp. 168, 202. 35. The Pilgrims Society – founded in 1902 as a dining club and traditionally the venue for a new US Ambassador’s ‘maiden speech’. 36. To commemorate their donation, people were sent a souvenir book with the following paragraph on its cover. ‘THIS SOUVENIR BOOK is given to you in grateful acknowledgement of your donation of five shillings to the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Fund.