Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between Braden and some other enunciators of the same doctrine is that he believes in practicing it, always and everywhere. The doctrine, and the methods by which he prefers to enforce it, have produced his most spectacular successes...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...
...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...
...Ambassador to Cuba, Braden helped make possible the free elections in which President-Dictator Juan Batista's regime was voted out. Braden forbade U.S. business interests in Cuba to pony up the usual election ante ($2,000,000 in that case) and otherwise encouraged a free vote. Even Batista praised him: "He is more a man than a diplomat." So far, the Braden doctrine and the Braden way have failed in their most conspicuous, most important test-in Argentina. There, at the crest of his career as a Hemisphere Ambassador, Braden early this year locked horns with Dictator Juan...
...triumph was short; Perón no sooner fell than he rose again like Antaeus, seemingly stronger than ever (TIME, Oct. 29). Braden's confirmation as Assistant Secretary was before the Senate, and his critics set upon him in full...