Word: hollander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Complex Briefing. At every stop, Nixon delighted his hosts by talking knowledgeably off the cuff about local problems. His knowledge was no accident. Aboard the plane he paid close attention to the good advice of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland (who doubled as chief translator). At each stop, the ranking State Department careerman from the country next on the list would join the party to bring the latest word on the situation ahead. Not once, in addressing a total of some 70,000 people and shaking 22,500 hands, did Nixon slip seriously...
...dollars. Fortnight ago. the government cut the minimum coffee-export price from 65.7? a lb. to 53.8?-a measure that should eventually revive exports and bring in more dollars. Meanwhile, Brazil urgently needed a stopgap dollar loan. Heeding the call for help, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland interrupted his visit to Cuba with Vice President Richard Nixon, flew to Rio. In less than 24 hours, Washington's Export-Import Bank announced a new $75 million credit to Brazil to finance essential imports from...
Other new major officers elected are Terrence S. Turner '57, Vice-President; Gordon Graham '55, Political Action Chairman; Harold J. Goldfarb '57, Fund Raising Chairman; and John A. Holland '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman...
Peace & Problems. O.A.S. leaders and notably the U.S.'s untiring Latin American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, could take satisfaction from an effective first military application of the 1947 Rio treaty, which provides that every American nation must aid any other American that might be attacked. But no permanent peace has been won. Figueres still despises Somoza and wishes that neighbor Nicaragua were an armyless democracy like Costa Rica. Somoza still hates Figueres and wishes that his good friend Calderón Guardia were running Costa Rica. The Calderonistas still think revolution a more promising route to power than taking...
...planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They reported that "a substantial part of the [rebel] war matériel was introduced over [Costa Rica...