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...immediate unification of France and Great Britain. Monnet put it to De Gaulle, who agreed it was worth the gamble. Both men went to Churchill, and the result was Churchill's historic but futile "declaration of Franco-British Union." Monnet then flew to Bordeaux in a big Sunderland Flying-boat to try to evacuate the whole French Cabinet. The Cabinet refused to budge, for fear of being labeled cowardly émigrés. A disappointed Monnet returned to London with the flying-boat full of refugee families...
...Manhattan's Boyden Associates claims the highest ($50,000) average salary for the executives it places. Among its recent recruits: United Fruit President Thomas Sunderland and Studebaker-Packard Pres ident Sherwood Egbert...
After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant tongue, and with it, a noise less associated with Belgravia than The Bronx...
...Sunderland took over some massive headaches apart from sinking profits. Among them: Fidel Castro's confiscation of 272,472 acres of United Fruit sugar and cattle lands in Cuba; a 1958 anti-trust consent decree requiring United Fruit, by 1970, to divest itself of roughly one-third of its banana import business...
...President Sunderland, 53, is brimful of plans for restoring United Fruit's oldtime profits. Above all, Sunderland wants to make the company less dependent on bananas. It might diversify by raising more cattle, producing more palm oil, manufacturing soap and other palm-oil products. Most important, perhaps, United Fruit last year acquired a 123,000-acre oil concession in Colombia, and Oilman Sunderland is keenly interested in exploring for oil elsewhere in tropical America, hoping that black gold will pay when green gold does...