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This is the man whom the State Department chose last week to run the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, a job which has been vacant since bull-necked Spruille Braden was called back to Washington last August to become Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs...
...Braden's Man. A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...Argentina, Peronistas hailed his appointment as a defeat for Braden and a sign that the U.S. now intends to conduct its Argentine business on a strictly professional basis. Actually, there has been no basic change in U.S. policy. Messersmith is Braden's man. And Peron might remember Messersmith's "uncanny nose...
Colombia's authoritative Tiempo praised Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden's democratic intentions, but deplored his "mistaken policy" in Argentina. Grizzled old Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Foreign Minister, declared that he "could not see why Mexico, having kept relations with the previous [Argentine] regime, whose legality was questionable, should not now continue relations with [Perón] who as far as I know has been legally elected."* Brazil decided to send its ambassador back...
...seat. Ever since Spruille Braden, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, talked tough as U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires last summer, U.S. hemispheric policy had been aimed at the overthrow of Argentina's Strong Man Juan Perón. Last week Washington policy-makers knew where that policy had got them: 1) Argentines, in free elections, apparently had chosen Juan Perón their President; 2) the U.S. would have to try a new tack...