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...charges (TIME, Feb. 18), called them undiplomatic, then himself screamed: "crude lies." To a reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
...stern indictment was a 13O-page booklet written in language no nation ordinarily uses unless it is prepared to go to war. The booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...
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...