Word: bradenism
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...intervention-the opposition to demand a fair shake, the Somozistas to get their victory certified. For about a year, ever since he got the word that the U.S. State Department favored democracy in the banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has been trying to get right with Spruille Braden. Asked last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes it or not. After he's been to the toilet...
...about it-to talk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He decided that he would go to Moscow in March for the Council of Foreign Ministers meetings. Coming to closer grips with the sizzling Argentina policy controversy, he conferred with Ambassador George Messersmith and Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
Messersmith, who has the career diplomat's predilection for the gloved hand, liked this approach to his new job. He had gone to Buenos Aires with the firm conviction that the speechmaking, note-writing tactics of Spruille Braden must end; that the patching-up job, if it could be done at all, must be done behind the scenes. In this he was privately seconded by Secretary of State Byrnes...
...early '30s, when the Good Neighbor Policy was instituted, the man to whom policy mainly meant words was good, grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull; the man to whom it meant deeds was glacial Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Today, Hull's position has been taken by Spruille Braden, who is still Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, and George Messersmith's immediate boss. The chief exponent of the philosophy that policy means deeds (or tactics and approach) is George Messersmith...
...thereafter at Rio de Janeiro for two purposes: 1) to draft the treaty for the Act of Chapultepec (which was a wartime agreement); 2) to discuss an inter-hemispheric defense agreement under which the U.S. would undertake to furnish standardized arms to all Western Hemisphere nations. So far, Spruille Braden, unwilling to let Argentina in, has refused to set a date for it. Until that conference is held, Latins will still be skeptical of genuine U.S. good-neighborliness, and confused by U.S. policy. And until Secretary of State Byrnes or the foreign-affairs leaders of the new Congress take time...