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President Harry Truman moved swiftly to tidy up U.S. hemispheric affairs. Within three days, he agreed that Argentina had fulfilled her commitments under the Act of Chapultepec, brusquely accepted the resignations of Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Ambassador to Argentina George Messersmith...
...Braden's insistence that Argentina fulfill the last letter of her anti-Nazi commitments was paralyzing State's Latin American division. Messersmith had attacked his job of smoothing U.S.-Argentine relations with such gusto that he was beginning to look like an apologist for President Juan...
...fill the hole left by Spruille Braden, the President this week picked a different sort of peg: veteran Career Diplomat Norman Armour, who retired in 1945 after 30 years of able service that took him from Leningrad to Madrid. Careerman Armour was slated to take over a new, expanded job as Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs...
...historic week for Argentina. It marked the official end to the war-born feud between the U.S. and Argentina-and brought with it the resignations of Juan Domingo Perón's archfoe, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, and his good friend and "apologist, dyspeptic Ambassador George Messersmith (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The week was also the end of Perón's first year as President...
Last week Secretary Marshall settled the dispute. He backed the War & Navy Departments' recommendations, which were put up to Congress this week. For Spruille Braden, whose Latin American policy has been discredited and abandoned, it was a pointed hint...