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...arranged the firing of overscrupulous Cabinet ministers who interfered with her brothers' shady export-import transactions...
...Dulles with cool logic coupled his case for joint anti-Communist measures ("There is not a single country in this hemisphere which has not been penetrated by the apparatus of international Communism operating under orders from Moscow") with the prospect of U.S. economic cooperation (more technical aid, continued Export-Import Bank loans, no price ceilings on coffee). The Secretary made no reference to Guatemala, the one country where Communists are gaining steadily in influence...
...They want assurances that the U.S. will grant more loans and technical aid. quit complaining about high coffee prices, promise to hold down tariffs, give them some sort of parity price program for their raw materials. Some U.S gesture−an announcement, for instance, that the U.S. Export-Import Bank would reconsider the decision against making further Latin American development loans−may be necessary in this atmosphere if Dulles is to win support for his anti-Communist program...
...session for months, were much disturbed at the reassignment last fortnight of Assistant Secretary John Moors Cabot, Dulles' top Latin American hand, to the post of Ambassador to Sweden. Almost to a man, they believe that Cabot was moved out because he had urged greater use of Export-Import Bank loans to finance Latin American economic development, and was overruled by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who favors letting the World Bank take over that responsibility. Now, though Cabot will still go to Caracas as Dulles' adviser, the Latinos are wondering what further changes in U.S. policy...
...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. Business has also taken Holland on fre quent trips to Central and South America. He lives with his wife Betty and three children in a three-bedroom house, plays a "passable" guitar and shuns the oil-rich Houston social life...