Word: custodianship
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...final decision to take a strong stand stems also from our responsibilities under international law. Ever since Formosa and the Pescadores were liberated from the Japanese, the United States has exercised a custodianship over them. When Japan relinquished her claims in the place treaty, the islands were not formally returned to China, but remained in the legal care of the United States. The defense treaty with the Chinese Nationalists, now awaiting Senate approval, would firmly assert this relationship...
Goshen's well-to-do E. Roland Harriman, co-owner with Major Elbridge Gerry (now overseas), got the one-year custodianship of the gallon-sized Hambletonian "cup," and a pint-sized replica for keeps. These he probably valued more than Titan's $27,608.33 share of the purse, which he needs less than Titan needs...
Barbara Hutton, about to assume her six-months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...farewell dinner for Adams House men leaving College at the end of this term, David M. Little '18. Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, accepted the custodianship for the University of the Arthur Adams Memorial Silver on behalf of the members of the House on June...
...That Japan's custodianship of Manchukuo (i. e. of formerly Chinese territory northeast of the Great Wall) is "a new and effective guarantee that has been established for the maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...