Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, summoned the U.S. correspondents into his office. Pleased as an outsized Punch, he "announced that the Argentine Government had abolished all press censorship. Henceforth the newsmen might cable their stories direct, without subterfuge, delay or fear of retaliation. The correspondents were properly gratified, gave hard-hitting Braden much of the credit. Only one skeptic remarked: "Seems we heard this before...
When In Rome . . . In Chicago, police held Hillbilly Braden French for carrying a revolver in his belt. He explained that the folks back in Tennessee had told him Chicago was tough...
...open & aboveboard, almost resulted in a military dictatorship. The news came out last week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
Once he was sure that the danger was real, Ambassador Braden acted vigorously. Making a nice diplomatic distinction between "intervention" and "intercession," he sent word to both Batista and Benitez that such undemocratic shenanigans were not in order. If Dr. Grau were kept from his lawful office, the U.S. would throw an airtight blockade around Cuba...
Impressed by this warning, many of Benitez's officer friends deserted him. But Benitez did not give up at once. At one formal gathering, in Ambassador Braden's presence, Benitez denounced both Batista and Grau, kept calling each of them "cabrón" (Cuban for son-of-a-bitch). Then Batista struck. He fired Benitez from the Army, packed him off to Miami. For Señor (no longer General) Benitez, Ambassador Braden issued a rush-order visa...