Word: braden
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Last week the U.S. Senate turned loose a bull in the Latin American china shop. He was Spruille Braden, now confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, a big, jolly, working democrat whose object was to smash the Western Hemisphere's dictatorial bric-a-brac...
...headline readers and chancelleries alike. What manner of country was Argentina, where a ruling clique and a single city, Buenos Aires, seemed to decide a great nation's political destinies? And what of that democratic policy, laudable in aim, by which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden had seemed to triumph in Perón's overthrow? The phenomenon of the Strong Man and his army, his labor unions and his determined bands of street fighters, needed clarification...
...however long he might manage to make good his return to power, was no puppet on a string. If the Braden policy had a fault, it was the easy assumption that because Perón was a bad authoritarian, he had no roots in the country he ruled. Last week's anticlimax proved that he did have roots, of a sort. His enemies would do well to ponder and understand Argentina before they tried again...
About Face. The man behind last week's simultaneous blow at Latin pride and Latin dictatorship was paunchy, punchy Spruille Braden, lately U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and now Jimmy Byrnes's new Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs. Last May, just after he arrived in Argentina, Braden kicked the old Welles-Stettinius-Rockefeller tradition aside and announced his own policy: "We would like to see democratic governments in all parts of the world." Times had changed in Buenos Aires...
Argentine democrats rallied, not to the colonels as they had at Hull's prodding, but behind Braden and the U.S., and they were still going strong last week...