Spruille Braden
Spruille Braden (born March 13, 1894 in Elkhorn , Montana , † January 10, 1978 in Los Angeles , California ) was a United States Ambassador , entrepreneur , lobbyist and member of the Council on Foreign Relations .
Life
The parents of Spruille Braden were Mary Kimball and William Braden, a mining engineer , who on April 20, 1905 Barton Sewell, the mining concession for the copper mine El Teniente in Sewell , 160 km southeast of Santiago de Chile had acquired, where he first in Chile , the Applied zone melting process on an industrial scale. The Braden Copper Company was sold to Kennecott Utah Copper, a subsidiary of the Guggenheim Exploration Company, for $ 23 million in 1908 . The subsidiary was later sold to Anaconda Copper until the Chilean state acquired 51% of the shares in 1967.
Spruille Braden weighed over 100 pounds and played water polo in college . In 1914, he was an All-American Goalie in the Yale University team (best goal thrower nationwide).
Spruille Braden married Maria Humeres del Solar, († May 1962), daughter of a Chilean doctor, on September 5, 1915, and had five children with her.
From 1912 to 1919 Braden devoted himself to copper mining in Sewell. Braden founded an engineering office with Chilean partners , which won the order for Westinghouse Electric to electrify the Chilean Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (state railway). In 1926 he moved to Riverdale, Bronx, and worked in the real estate market and in the oil business . He made a donation for Franklin D. Roosevelt's first presidential nomination and became Secretary of State at the United States Department of State . His property in Latin America was USD 70 at a Chilean bank. In 1933 Braden was with Alexander W. Wendell, J. Butler Wright and J. Reuben Clark participant in the Seventh International Conference of American States ( Good Neighbor Policy ) in Montevideo , Uruguay by Cordell Hull . In 1935, Braden represented the United States of America and the Standard Oil Company in the peace negotiations on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, in which Paraguay had granted oil concessions to British Petroleum .
For the election on February 24, 1946, José Pascual Tamborini stood against Juan Perón . Braden's support for Tamborini with the Blue Book on Argentina was counterproductive for him. The Public Relations of Perón gave the slogan Braden o Perón from. Spruille Braden was replaced as ambassador in Buenos Aires by George S. Messersmith , who was friendly towards Perón.
Operation PBSUCCESS
Spruille Braden was an avowed opponent of union organization . In 1947, Braden was retired . From 1948 he made public relations for the United Fruit Company and contributed significantly to Operation PBSUCCESS .
“Diplomatic finesse and patience are called for under the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry . They can lead to defeat in a pub brawl like the one waged with the Kremlin . Often it is necessary to fight fire with fire. No one is more reluctant than me to interfere in the internal affairs of other peoples. But ... we are forced to intervene. . . . Since communism is obviously an international and not an internal matter, I would like to underline that its suppression by one or more other republics in an American country would not constitute an interference with internal affairs, even by force ... "
In 1964 Spruille Braden married Verbena Williams Hebbard († June 1977).
On May 1, 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle , the first official act after his re-election as President of Nicaragua , awarded the Gran Cruz of the Orden de Rubén Dario and paid tribute to Braden for his restless efforts for the cause of freedom throughout Latin America .
Spruille Braden took part in the WA Harriman & Company of W. Averell Harriman and became director of the insurance company W. Averell Harriman Securities Corporation .
From 1967 to 1973 Braden was chairman of the Metropolitan Club in New York City, founded by JP Morgan in 1891 .
1974 formed Spruille bards with William F. Buckley, Jr. , the American-Chilean Council that the coup in Chile in 1973 with the signature key targets of Soviet diplomacy: Chile and Peru orchestrated.
Braden died of heart failure at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles after his lobbying against the Torrijos Carter contracts failed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ He was born in Elkhorn, Mont, on March 13, 1894, with a copper spoon in his mouth. His father, William Braden, founded copper companies in Chile (later sold to Kennecott and Anaconda), including the fabulous Sewell mine. In der Time , March 25, 1946, Spurille Braden
- ^ Richard Immerman, The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention . Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982, p. 127.
- ↑ I arranged with Averell Harriman to become an associate of WA Harriman & Company, and to make my offices with them, occupying a desk in the partners' room with Averell and Roland Harriman and other partners in the firm, after: Spruille Braden, Diplomats and demagogues : the memoirs of Spruille Braden, Arlington House, 1971 - 496 pp. 89
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| William Dawson | U.S. Ambassador to Bogota February 15, 1939 to March 12, 1942 |
Arthur Bliss Lane |
| George S. Messersmith | US Ambassador to Havana May 19, 1945 to April 27, 1945 |
Raymond Henry Norweb |
| Norman Armor | US Ambassador to Buenos Aires May 21, 1945 to September 23, 1945 |
George S. Messersmith |
| Nelson Rockefeller |
Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs October 2, 1945 to June 27, 1947 |
Edward G. Miller |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braden, Spruille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elkhorn , Montana |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1978 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |