Word: bradenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conference will heal some old sores, may reopen others. Scheduled for war's end, the conference was summarily torpedoed a year ago by headstrong Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden on the ground that the U.S. had no business sitting down at the same table with Argentina. The scorching, inside battle that Braden's bull-in-china-shop action precipitated among U.S. diplomats made confusion of the U.S.'s Latin American policy, which was not too clear in the first place. Now that Braden and ex-Ambassador George Messersmith, his chief antagonist, are out, and the Administration...
Opposite Corners. Despite the kiss-&-make-up act that followed Braden's resignation, the U.S. and Argentina still stand in their traditional opposite corners. Argentina, fearful of her sovereignty, demands unanimous agreement among the Americas before squelching aggressors. She is alone in her stand. Last week the conference host, aging Brazilian Foreign Minister Raúl Fernandes (TIME, Aug. 4), said publicly that he hoped Argentina would change her mind...
...fill the hole left by Spruille Braden, the President this week picked a different sort of peg: veteran Career Diplomat Norman Armour, who retired in 1945 after 30 years of able service that took him from Leningrad to Madrid. Careerman Armour was slated to take over a new, expanded job as Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...
...historic week for Argentina. It marked the official end to the war-born feud between the U.S. and Argentina-and brought with it the resignations of Juan Domingo Perón's archfoe, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, and his good friend and "apologist, dyspeptic Ambassador George Messersmith (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The week was also the end of Perón's first year as President...