Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ambassador Spruille Braden took his seat at the banquet table, a wild ovation echoed through the building. During his speech the audience cheered, jumped up, waved handkerchiefs. Women cheer leaders pranced on tables. Probably no foreigner in Argentina had ever raised such a racket...
...Braden led off with a bull's-eye: an anecdote of British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Franco's Spain. When "nationalists" smashed the embassy's windows, Sir Samuel telephoned to Franco's Foreign Minister, who promised to send police. "Don't send me more police, Mr. Minister," Ambassador Hoare replied. "Send me fewer nationalists...
...Murat? Braden mentioned no names, but his audience got the point: Perón's noisy "nationalists" had been Braden's principal foes in Argentina. They knew what Spruille Braden meant, too, when he went...
...place, Jimmy Byrnes put a man about whose opinions and actions there was little doubt: big, bluff Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina since the U.S. recognized the Farrell Government last April. In Buenos Aires, Spruille Braden had resisted the threats and insults of fascist-minded Argentines who called him a "Yankee pig" and shouted "Death to Braden!" He had told the Government time & again that the U.S. would stand for no fascist finagling...
Rockefeller's resignation, announced the next day (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was no better news. His successor, Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, had been the thorniest thorn in the side of Peron & Co. Said he on taking over his new job: "My policy respecting Argentine and U.S. relations will not alter in the slightest. On the contrary, the larger opportunities of my new post will make my efforts even more effective...