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...midnight train from Rosario rolled into Buenos Aires, U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden wondered what kind of reception he would get at the station. In his pocket were reports of the Government-inspired, anti-U.S. campaign which had pictured him as a "Yankee pig," a tough U.S. cowboy trying to run Argentina. In a Buenos Aires theater, a nationalist audience had screamed: "Death to Braden...
...station platform stood some 3,000 Argentines. As Ambassador Braden stepped off the train, they waved U.S. flags, shouted: "Viva Braden, viva U.S., viva liberty, democracy, elections!" Then the crowd swept up the hefty Ambassador, wafted his 300 Ibs. to a waiting Embassy car. Not until Braden had sped away, did the Buenos Aires police step in with their nightsticks, start cracking demonstrators' heads...
...Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, summoned the U.S. correspondents into his office. Pleased as an outsized Punch, he "announced that the Argentine Government had abolished all press censorship. Henceforth the newsmen might cable their stories direct, without subterfuge, delay or fear of retaliation. The correspondents were properly gratified, gave hard-hitting Braden much of the credit. Only one skeptic remarked: "Seems we heard this before...
Once he was sure that the danger was real, Ambassador Braden acted vigorously. Making a nice diplomatic distinction between "intervention" and "intercession," he sent word to both Batista and Benitez that such undemocratic shenanigans were not in order. If Dr. Grau were kept from his lawful office, the U.S. would throw an airtight blockade around Cuba...
Impressed by this warning, many of Benitez's officer friends deserted him. But Benitez did not give up at once. At one formal gathering, in Ambassador Braden's presence, Benitez denounced both Batista and Grau, kept calling each of them "cabrón" (Cuban for son-of-a-bitch). Then Batista struck. He fired Benitez from the Army, packed him off to Miami. For Señor (no longer General) Benitez, Ambassador Braden issued a rush-order visa...