Word: bradenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together such indifferent neighbors as the U.S. and Argentina on such everyday matters as the mails, hygiene, labor relations. In the Union's glittering marble palace in Washington last week, the governing board met to choose a new chairman. Their first choice: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden. He declined, on the grounds that the U.S. had held the post too often. Chosen instead, to serve till 1947: Colombia's representative to the Pan-American Union, Antonio Rocha, whose country will play host to the Union's next big party, the Bogota conference, scheduled for early...
...still sitting firmly in his presidential chair. But the Perónist hue & cry over the Bolivian upset supported U.S. State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...
Jungle Tyranny. The vagaries of U.S. policy, to whose tune the banana dictators dance, helped tyrants hang on. Last winter, when Spruille Braden's blasts against tyranny were loudest, Dictators Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Tiburcio Carías Andino of Honduras behaved almost like gentlemen. Jail doors swung open, the press spoke up, elections were promised. Now rumor whispered that Bradenism was on the way out (vigorously denied in Washington last week) and the Strong Boys were strutting again...
Should the shiny new playthings go to the recalcitrant Argentines? War and Navy seemed to think so. State's Assistant Secretary Spruille Braden wondered why the rush. Why not let the Argentines first deNazify themselves, as they had promised at Chapultepec and at the U.N. meeting in San Francisco...
Cold, professionally efficient George Messersmith, first ambassador in B.A. since Spruille Braden left last September to become Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, had his work cut out for him. He not only had to repair neighborly relations. He had to get the jaunty Strong Man to abolish Nazi influence in Argentina, and to give real guarantees of good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension...