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...place, Jimmy Byrnes put a man about whose opinions and actions there was little doubt: big, bluff Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina since the U.S. recognized the Farrell Government last April. In Buenos Aires, Spruille Braden had resisted the threats and insults of fascist-minded Argentines who called him a "Yankee pig" and shouted "Death to Braden!" He had told the Government time & again that the U.S. would stand for no fascist finagling...
Rockefeller's resignation, announced the next day (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was no better news. His successor, Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, had been the thorniest thorn in the side of Peron & Co. Said he on taking over his new job: "My policy respecting Argentine and U.S. relations will not alter in the slightest. On the contrary, the larger opportunities of my new post will make my efforts even more effective...
...Ambassador Spruille Braden, speaking at a victory celebration of the American colony, left no doubt about the U.S. attitude toward the Argentine militarists. "Victory," said Braden, "has brought us new and surprising friends. The victorious United Nations are now being acclaimed in some high places by those who in the past . . . attached themselves and their destinies to the Axis. . . . The peoples of the world have learned that Fascist militarists . . . will stop at nothing. ... To defeat them we have paid a staggering price. . . . We shall not forget this lesson merely because petty tyrants are now assuming the disguise of spurious democracy...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
...other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...