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...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...
...Ambassador to Cuba, Braden helped make possible the free elections in which President-Dictator Juan Batista's regime was voted out. Braden forbade U.S. business interests in Cuba to pony up the usual election ante ($2,000,000 in that case) and otherwise encouraged a free vote. Even Batista praised him: "He is more a man than a diplomat." So far, the Braden doctrine and the Braden way have failed in their most conspicuous, most important test-in Argentina. There, at the crest of his career as a Hemisphere Ambassador, Braden early this year locked horns with Dictator Juan...
...triumph was short; Perón no sooner fell than he rose again like Antaeus, seemingly stronger than ever (TIME, Oct. 29). Braden's confirmation as Assistant Secretary was before the Senate, and his critics set upon him in full...
Lest they be suspected of approving the Peróns of Latin America, the critical Senators joined in a unanimous vote to confirm Braden's appointment. But they had made known that freehanded, aggressive "intervention," even for Latin liberties, was not the policy of the U.S. Senate...
...Brass Knuckles. Spruille Braden himself was well aware that Latin sovereignty, Latin pride and-probably more often than he would like-Latin sloth were involved. Long before his critics awoke to the fact, he had realized that his No. 1 antagonist, Perón, commanded some popular support (perhaps 30% of organized Argentine labor, for instance). He understood, better than most, that the U.S. could do little more against the Argentine regime than continue to make U.S. displeasure known...