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...Spruille Braden thinks that he knows the answer: in the final test, sovereignty rests not in governments but in the people, and the people love liberty. He learned that revolutionary answer where it often seems to be contradicted-in Latin America...
...Mountains. The most colorful diplomat on the current U.S. scene was born 51 years ago, in the Montana mountain country. His future was shaped at birth: Spruille's father was William Braden, an engineer and promoter who followed the mining business from Montana to Chile, got rich in the process, and in his day was famous throughout the southern continent...
...William Braden made a point of taking his family wherever he went. When schools were scarce, Spruille's mother tutored him. At 16 he entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, took a year off to mine, cut timber and slush about the oilfields of the West, then graduated at 20. Yale knew "Fat" Braden as an All-America goal in water polo, and as a discriminating but notable eater. His class annual characterized him: "He hath eaten me out of house and home." His mother later said that the English language, as perfected at Yale and spoken...
Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...
Wealth & a Conscience. Moneyed by mines, electric power and oil deals, Spruille Braden was another rich man on the Hudson in the late '20s. His menage at Riverdale, N.Y., included a stable of South American prizefighters who slept over the garage...