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...prearrangement, more than 50 distinguished citizens got together within three hours of the jury's action, formed the Crime Committee of Greater New York* and began looking for FBI-picked investigators to get it operating. As chairman of the nonpartisan group, the citizens picked Spruille Braden, harddriving, blunt-talking ex-Ambassador to Argentina and former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. Among the other members: Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, President Thomas I. Parkinson of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, President S. Sloan Colt of the Bankers Trust...
...Chairman Braden leaped into the new assignment with enthusiasm. "We are shocked when we see so much corruption -perhaps we should be called the Anti-Corruption committee," explained Braden. "This corruption goes beyond city, state and national borders. It is hurting us in world affairs...
...Conference will heal some old sores, may reopen others. Scheduled for war's end, the conference was summarily torpedoed a year ago by headstrong Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden on the ground that the U.S. had no business sitting down at the same table with Argentina. The scorching, inside battle that Braden's bull-in-china-shop action precipitated among U.S. diplomats made confusion of the U.S.'s Latin American policy, which was not too clear in the first place. Now that Braden and ex-Ambassador George Messersmith, his chief antagonist, are out, and the Administration...
Opposite Corners. Despite the kiss-&-make-up act that followed Braden's resignation, the U.S. and Argentina still stand in their traditional opposite corners. Argentina, fearful of her sovereignty, demands unanimous agreement among the Americas before squelching aggressors. She is alone in her stand. Last week the conference host, aging Brazilian Foreign Minister Raúl Fernandes (TIME, Aug. 4), said publicly that he hoped Argentina would change her mind...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...