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Last week the U.S. Senate turned loose a bull in the Latin American china shop. He was Spruille Braden, now confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, a big, jolly, working democrat whose object was to smash the Western Hemisphere's dictatorial bric-a-brac...
Already Spruille Braden was better known to the Latins than any other U.S. figure, Franklin D. Roosevelt perhaps excepted. In five months of Hemispheric fame, twelve years of quieter labors, he had made himself an idol to many, anathema to many others. Nor were all who distrusted or feared him dictators and authoritarians. Many a Latin democrat (perhaps more Latin than democratic) was numbered among his loud detractors...
...Spruille Braden, in his big person and his big ideals, embodied the great paradox confronting the U.S. in Latin America. The U.S. officially, and Braden personally, propose to uphold the U.S. idea of liberty in all the Western Hemisphere. Yet the U.S., as the greatest of western nations, and Braden as its servant, must recognize that sovereignty-especially sovereignty below the Rio Grande-is sometimes more precious than liberty...
...headline readers and chancelleries alike. What manner of country was Argentina, where a ruling clique and a single city, Buenos Aires, seemed to decide a great nation's political destinies? And what of that democratic policy, laudable in aim, by which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden had seemed to triumph in Perón's overthrow? The phenomenon of the Strong Man and his army, his labor unions and his determined bands of street fighters, needed clarification...
...however long he might manage to make good his return to power, was no puppet on a string. If the Braden policy had a fault, it was the easy assumption that because Perón was a bad authoritarian, he had no roots in the country he ruled. Last week's anticlimax proved that he did have roots, of a sort. His enemies would do well to ponder and understand Argentina before they tried again...