Suicide
Winant committed suicide in 1947 in his Concord home on the day his book Letter from Grosvenor Square was published, and was buried at St. Paul's School. The book, Citizens of London, reports that after Roosevelt's death, with Winant's distance from his Republican Party base, "e hoped that he was going to become secretary-general of the new UN .... On top of that, his affair with Sarah Churchill ended badly. 'He was an exhausted, sick man after the war,' " author Olson continued in the interview on NPR.
Upon learning of Winant's death, Winston Churchill sent four dozen yellow roses to his funeral, and the British king and queen sent their condolences by telegram.
Winant is buried in Concord, New Hampshire. His gravestone is inscribed with a 1946 quote from him: "Doing the day's work day by day, doing a little, adding a little, broadening our bases wanting not only for ourselves but for others also, a fairer chance for all people everywhere. Forever moving forward, always remembering that it is the things of the spirit that in the end prevail. That caring counts and that where there is no vision the people perish. That hope and faith count and that without charity, there can be nothing good. That having dared to live dangerously, and in believing in the inherent goodness of man, we can stride forward into the unknown with growing confidence."
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