Word: guardianships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upshot of the meeting was that Pretender and Dictator agreed that Juanito should be handed over to the guardianship of Lieut. General Carlos Martinez de Campos, Duque de la Torre, a hard-fisted former artilleryman who is Franco's close friend and has family ties with Don Juan. The duke, a member of the Spanish general staff, will have charge of a large staff of tutors, mostly from the Spanish naval college, who will instruct Juanito in military science, mathematics and history, prepare him for officership in the Spanish navy...
...York World-Telegram and Sun recalled that the night before Truman's charge was read, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman had introduced Eisenhower at the annual Al Smith dinner with these words: "The man of our generation to whom America entrusted the guardianship of its most precious possession-our liberties and our youth; a man known and respected throughout the country and throughout the world, a general who has a place among the alltime great men in American history...
...each interest or portion of the community a negative on the others. It is this mutual negative among its various conflicting interests, which invests each with the power of protecting itself;-and places the rights and safety of each, where only they can be securely placed, under its own guardianship. Without this there can be no systematic, peaceful, or effective resistance to the natural tendency of each to come into conflict with the others; and without this there can be no Constitution. It is this negative power-the power of preventing or arresting the action of the government . . . which...
After an agonizing debate, the family decided to split, leaving Olga behind to try to make her way as a dressmaker. But the Sokolowskis' sponsors, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, opposes splitting families, and would not undertake Olga's guardianship...
Different Garments. There could be no solution as in 1947, when the U.S. simply took over Britain's responsibilities in Greece and Turkey. In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base, troops in Eritrea, air bases at Derna and Tobruk in Libya, heavy naval responsibility in the eastern Mediterranean. Even if it were feasible (which it is not), the U.S. could not don the discredited garments of colonialism which Britain and France have worn...