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...ready to treat Latin America's 20 nations as equals, strengthening her flank in a great and historic continental combination?" This question dominated the official Peronista press as Henry Holland's airplane landed in Buenos Aires. As part of the process of answering, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State next morning talked privately with Juan Peron. Whatever the Secretary said (in fluent, Mexican-accented Spanish) and heard, the chat set a sunny tone for his visit...
...banquet the night before he left, Holland offered a rich, buttery toast to Peron: "A great American, a great Argentine-" Peron ordered out his personal DC-4 to take Holland to Chile, and the Peronista press wrote: "We received Mr. Holland with a question. His attitude these past three days has been a full and satisfactory reply...
...crime. For close to half a century, the shy and sensitive younger son Vyvyan kept the secret of his past hidden in a life of semi-retirement and seclusion. Last week, in a biography published in England,* 68-year-old Vyvyan, whose last name was changed to Holland, told what it was like to spend a lifetime as the hidden son of Oscar Wilde...
...family conference picked a new surname, Holland, for them out of their mother's ancestry. While the boys set to work practicing their new signatures, elders sorted their possessions, relabeling their clothes and making sure that the name of Wilde appeared on nothing. Later on, when the boys were at an English-run boarding school in Germany, they found some cricket flannels still marked with their right names and tore out the labels with the desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray...
...mother's family were prepared to grant him no such laurels. If Vyvyan took a drop too much at a party, he was promptly described in family circles as being "dead drunk." When Vyvyan Holland went to Cambridge-Oxford was out of the question since his father had gone there-his guardian was quick to warn those in charge that he was "idle, drank to excess and frequented bad company." In the years since, Vyvyan Holland has found, befriended and been befriended by many old friends of his father. He has married...