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...fortnight ago, in a swivet of anti-Yanqui hysteria, Panama's National Assembly unanimously rejected the U.S.-proposed treaty for 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. Last week, to Panama's astonishment, the U.S. promptly ordered its armed forces to vacate all bases outside the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, including the big bomber base at Rio Hata...
Only the students and their professors (five of whom were arrested as leaders) put up organized resistance. Even wily, oldtime Yanqui-Baiter Arnulfo Arias, now campaigning for President (TIME, Dec. 8), had plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...
...blue & white striped Argentine flags springing from Buenos Aires' handsome, grey stone buildings. The packed throngs, who saw Perón as a modern knight in the shining armor of socialistic endeavor, shouted "Perón! Perón!" again and again. The diplomats, too, got cheers -except Yanqui George S. Messersmith, who got boos and whistles. (Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia next day called at the U.S. Embassy to apologize for his countrymen...
...this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point to determined and long-term economic measures as the only means of exerting pressure upon the six-year hegemony of Fascism in the colossus of the South...
Some officials in the U.S. State Department had long hesitated to put pressure on Argentina's Government, fearing that such intervention would unite all Argentines against the domineering Yanqui. But Spruille Braden's most outspoken speech seemed to have done no such thing. Except for Perón's henchmen, Argentines applauded...