Word: bradenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were all signs that the tough, democratic talk of forthright U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden could be heard across the Caribbean. Elsewhere in Central America there were disturbing proofs that headaches only begin when tyrants are tossed...
...forceful Spruille Braden marched up to an NBC microphone last week, gave some straight talk on what the U.S. was up to in Latin America. The U.S., boomed Braden, thought Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodriguez Larreta's proposal for joint, tough measures against any American nation that violates "the elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself...
Power and Leadership. The forthright new U.S.-Latin American policy was voiced more clearly than ever last week in speeches by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden in New Haven and Manhattan. "The problem we face is not how to avoid using our power," said hard-hitting Spruille Braden. "We cannot possibly avoid using it, for it weighs in the balance just as much even when we do not deliberately apply it or when we deliberately seek to avoid applying it. . . . If a nation has great power, as we have it in abundance, it cannot shun the obligation to exercise...
...Washington, Secretary Byrnes affirmed the Braden doctrine that the hemispheric principle of non-intervention should not shield violators of the elementary rights of man. He also accepted Uruguayan Foreign Minister Alberto Rodriguez Larreta's ringing proposal that the American republics take joint action against oppressive regimes in their midst (TIME...
Some suspected that the Uruguayan note had originated in Spruille Braden's office. They were wrong. But the U.S. State Department was going all out to line up the lesser republics behind a forthright policy of intervention when & where intervention seemed necessary...