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Toward the close of his speech, Braden assured his audience that his recent elevation to Assistant Secretary of State was not a kicking upstairs...
When Ambassador Spruille Braden took his seat at the banquet table, a wild ovation echoed through the building. During his speech the audience cheered, jumped up, waved handkerchiefs. Women cheer leaders pranced on tables. Probably no foreigner in Argentina had ever raised such a racket...
...Braden led off with a bull's-eye: an anecdote of British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Franco's Spain. When "nationalists" smashed the embassy's windows, Sir Samuel telephoned to Franco's Foreign Minister, who promised to send police. "Don't send me more police, Mr. Minister," Ambassador Hoare replied. "Send me fewer nationalists...
...Murat? Braden mentioned no names, but his audience got the point: Perón's noisy "nationalists" had been Braden's principal foes in Argentina. They knew what Spruille Braden meant, too, when he went...
Some officials in the U.S. State Department had long hesitated to put pressure on Argentina's Government, fearing that such intervention would unite all Argentines against the domineering Yanqui. But Spruille Braden's most outspoken speech seemed to have done no such thing. Except for Perón's henchmen, Argentines applauded...