Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the man whom the State Department chose last week to run the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, a job which has been vacant since bull-necked Spruille Braden was called back to Washington last August to become Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs...
Colombia's authoritative Tiempo praised Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden's democratic intentions, but deplored his "mistaken policy" in Argentina. Grizzled old Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Foreign Minister, declared that he "could not see why Mexico, having kept relations with the previous [Argentine] regime, whose legality was questionable, should not now continue relations with [Perón] who as far as I know has been legally elected."* Brazil decided to send its ambassador back...
...seat. Ever since Spruille Braden, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, talked tough as U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires last summer, U.S. hemispheric policy had been aimed at the overthrow of Argentina's Strong Man Juan Perón. Last week Washington policy-makers knew where that policy had got them: 1) Argentines, in free elections, apparently had chosen Juan Perón their President; 2) the U.S. would have to try a new tack...
...charges (TIME, Feb. 18), called them undiplomatic, then himself screamed: "crude lies." To a reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
...stern indictment was a 13O-page booklet written in language no nation ordinarily uses unless it is prepared to go to war. The booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...