Spruille Braden
Spruille Braden ( born March 13, 1894 in Elkhorn, Montana, † January 10, 1978 in Los Angeles, California ) was a United States ambassador, businessman, 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 had acquired on April 20, 1905, Barton Sewell the mining concession for the El Teniente copper mine in Sewell, 160 km southeast of Santiago de Chile, where he for the first time in Chile, the zone melting process was applied on an industrial scale. The Braden Copper Company in 1908 sold for USD 23 million to the Kennecott Utah Copper, a subsidiary of Guggenheim Exploration Company. Later, the subsidiary was sold to the Anaconda Copper, until 1967, the Chilean government acquired a 51 % stake.
Spruille Braden weighed more than 100 kilograms and played on the college water polo. In team from Yale University in 1914, he was an All-American goalie ( nationwide best Torwerfer ).
Spruille Braden married on September 5, 1915 Humeres Maria del Solar, († in May 1962 ), daughter of a Chilean physician, and had with her five children.
From 1912 to 1919, devoted himself to the Braden Copper production in Sewell. Braden founded with Chilean partakers an engineering firm that won the contract for the electrification of the Chilean Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado ( State Railways ) for Westinghouse Electric. In 1926 he moved to Riverdale in the Bronx and worked on the land market and in the oil business. He donated for the first presidential candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. As assets in Latin America, he pointed out 70 USD with a Chilean bank. 1933 Braden Alexander W. Wendell, J. Butler Wright and J. Reuben Clark participants at the Seventh International Conference of American States ( Good Neighbor Policy) in Montevideo, Uruguay from Cordell Hull. 1935 Braden represented the United States of America and the Standard Oil Company in the peace negotiations to the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, in which Paraguay was awarded oil concessions to the British Petroleum.
At the election on February 24, 1946 José Pascual Tamborini ran against Juan Perón. The partisanship Braden for Tamborini with the Blue book on Argentina looked for this counterproductive. The public relations Perón spent the slogan Braden o Perón. Spruille Braden was replaced as ambassador in Buenos Aires by George S. Messersmith, who was Perón set against friendly.
Operation PBSUCCESS
Spruille Braden was an outspoken opponent of unionization. 1947 Braden was forced to retire. From 1948 he made public relations for the United Fruit Company and contributed significantly to the operation PBSUCCESS.
" Diplomatic finesse and patience are fixed under the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry. In a tavern brawl, as it is done with the Kremlin, they can lead to defeat. It is often necessary to fight fire with fire. No one resists more than me, to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. But ... we are forced to intervene.. . . Since communism is manifestly an international and not an internal matter, I would like to underline that its suppression would by represent one or more other republics in an American country by force any intervention in the internal affairs ... "
1964 married Spruille Braden Verbena Williams Hebbard († June 1977).
On May 1, 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle gave, as his first official act after his re- election as president of Nicaragua, 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 participated 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 company founded by JP Morgan in 1891 Metropolitan Club in New York City.
1974 formed Spruille bards with William F. Buckley, Jr., the American - Chilean Council that the 1973 coup in Chile with Scripture Key targets of Soviet Diplomacy: orchestrated Chile and Peru.
Braden died of heart failure at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles after his lobbying had failed against the Torrijos -Carter Treaties.