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...proposal similar to Briand's. Said Churchill: "We hope that the Western democracies of Europe will draw together in ever closer amity and ever closer association. . . . This ... if found wise, should be pressed from many angles with the utmost perseverance. I see no reason why, under the guardianship of a world organization, there should not ultimately arise the United States of Europe, both of the East and of the West, which will unify this continent in a manner never known since the fall of the Roman Empire and within which all its people may dwell together in prosperity...
...unerring knowledge of the rules and his uncompromising adherence to them have been the admiration of his close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look something of a prim curmudgeon...
Despite its gestures toward the French, the Crimea declaration made it clear that the Big Three did not yet rate France as one of the trustees, even in western Europe. Even the cordial paragraph inviting "the Provisional Government of the French Republic" to join in the guardianship of liberated Europe implied that the Big Three could get along without France...
Constance Bennett, who might or might not be 15-year-old Peter Bennett Plant's mother, finally won legal guardianship of him, after twelve years of claims and counterclaims, in & out of court. In 1932, two years after nicking the late Playboy Phil Plant for a $1,000,000 divorce, she said young Peter was her godson, formally adopted him. Last fall, during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter...
When Quint Guardian J. A. Valin, a judge who is now 86, recently resigned, the Province re-examined the guardianship setup. Its decision: unnecessary "intervention in [the Dionnes'] affairs should not persist." A contributory factor: public opinion has turned more & more toward Oliva Dionne ever since the late Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, also a Quint guardian, was photographed in 1939 in New York City wearing a pink mortarboard and a sign reading: "Doctor of Litters...