Word: hollanders
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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...
...Lufthansa ordered its planes from the U.S.; four Convairs have already arrived and eight Constellations are due, starting later this month. Lufthansa's 70 pilots, recruited from among company veterans, had to retrain and catch up with ten missing years of flight development in Britain, the U.S., and Holland; the peace treaty prohibits flight training in Germany. Recently Lufthansa hired ten pilots from British European Airways as instructors. Mostly, they sat by in the Convair cockpits while the retread German pilots did the test flying...
...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...