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...crash did not exactly give Braden a social conscience; it awakened one. Dinted but by no means bankrupt, he did some heavy thinking which later led ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings to say: "Braden just couldn't help convincing himself that he was a progressive...
...time and had to come out." It came out in the form of money and personal support for Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 campaign. The Roosevelt victory, the laws of politics, and Braden's background made him a natural for Latin diplomacy. He soon completed his qualifications by selling all his Latin holdings...
...Braden Way. In dictator-ridden Buenos Aires last May, Spruille Braden stated his policy in one explosive sentence: the United States is against dictators everywhere. By the same token he is for freedom everywhere - period...
...difference between Braden and some other enunciators of the same doctrine is that he believes in practicing it, always and everywhere. The doctrine, and the methods by which he prefers to enforce it, have produced his most spectacular successes...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...