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Albert E. Holland and Fe del Mundo first met in the internment camp at Manila's Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined...
Working with Holland, Dr. del Mundo got 400 U.S. and Allied children out of the camp and cared for them as long as the Japanese would let her. Then the following year the Japanese cracked down, herded Dr. del Mundo's patients back into Santo Tomas, and denied her access to them. The last time she saw Holland, he was down to a skeletal 95 Ibs. For most of the next 23 years, neither heard anything of the other. She thought he had probably died of starvation; he thought the Japanese had probably executed...
...made the most heartfelt speech at the presentation of the award was Dr. Albert E. Holland, Dr. del Mundo's long-lost friend from Santo Tomas. After his release, Holland had turned from business to education, and last spring Hobart's trustees picked him to take over as president, beginning this month...
...usually more of a cutting-down than a building-up pastime. Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's performance in foreign policy, Geyelin reports that the President sent the Marines to Santo Domingo with the cry that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals...
...astonished to read in your report [July 8] on the Dominican Republic inauguration that Vice President Humphrey "arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers." As a member of the U.S. delegation in Santo Domingo, I accompanied the Vice President to the ceremony in the Congress building. Our party was one of the first to arrive. The arrival was calm, unflushed and unhurried...