Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some time before the election of Juan Domingo Peron to the Argentine Presidency, the U.S. State Department decided that a Peronista government was intolerable to American interests. Working from this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point...
...Braden's Man. A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...Argentina, Peronistas hailed his appointment as a defeat for Braden and a sign that the U.S. now intends to conduct its Argentine business on a strictly professional basis. Actually, there has been no basic change in U.S. policy. Messersmith is Braden's man. And Peron might remember Messersmith's "uncanny nose...
...divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...
Despite the fact that he could hand-pick his subordinates, Spruille Braden faced a dilemma. Last week an old hand at Latin American affairs put his finger on it. Wrote onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in his New York Herald Tribune column: "For over two years I have warned that the policy of the Department of State would arouse popular support for the military leaders and weaken [Argentina's] liberal and democratic forces. [This policy] helped to bring about [Peron's] triumph...