Word: bradenism
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...characters. They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
Arms & the Man. One of the questions the legislators had raised was about Spruille Braden, onetime mastermind of the U.S. get-tough-with-Argentina policy. Marshall said he expected to settle that one within ten days. He soon gave evidence of what he meant. The Secretaries of War & Navy had advocated that the U.S. transfer a lot of its military equipment to Canada and Latin America, with the object of 1) nailing down the arms market; 2) standardizing and modernizing equipment throughout the Western Hemisphere; 3) thus bolstering hemispheric defenses...
...Braden had objected. Such action, he said, would start an arms race and would put small, democratic Latin American nations at the mercy of bigger, nondemocratic ones...
...conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...cannot help but destroy any South American attempt at a healthy state system, Definitely uneasy, but completely befuddled, the United States has alternately adopted a hot and cold policy towards Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden interfered with internal Argentine politics in a get tough policy, Peron was swept into office among cries of "Yankee Imperialism" and the current attitude of appeasement allowed Argentina to suck Bolivia into its fold...