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...Mexico City to Houston one night last week, a square-jawed man wearing rimless glasses handed his seatmate two typed sheets of paper listing some 60 names. "I think I ought to know these folks," he explained. "Would you check me while I run over the list?" Henry Finch Holland, just nominated chief of the State Department's Latin American Affairs section, thereupon rattled off the names of Latin America's ambassadors to the U.S. and U.S. envoys to Latin America...
...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...
Born on the border at Brownsville, Holland learned Spanish as a boy from Mexican-American playmates, took his law degree from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies...
...political independent, Holland contributed to Ike's 1952 campaign and voted for him. But Texas Republicans, far from originating his appointment, had to be told who Henry Holland was before they could give him political clearance. Not politics, but a need for the kind of man who would plunge right into such drudging homework as memorizing the names of his future colleagues, dictated the choice of the new Assistant Secretary...
Last week the U.S. Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...