Oral history interview with Spruille Braden, 1956.

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Oral history interview with Spruille Braden, 1956.

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Childhood and education; development of copper mining in Chile; business enterprises in New York and Latin America; experiences as chairman of the New York State Crime Commission; detailed description of career with the government, with special emphasis on the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935-39; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1939-42, Cuba, 1942, and Argentina, 1945, and role as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, 1945-47; impressions of Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, and Carlos Saavedra Lamas.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Link, Wendell H.

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Braden, Spruille, 1894-1978

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American diplomat, mining engineer. Braden (1894-1978) was a diplomat in numerous Latin American countries and was particularly well known for his role as the American Representative to the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935-1939, and for his opposition to the Peron regime in Argentina in the 1940s. From the guide to the Spruille Braden Papers, 1903-1977., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Diplomat, mining engineer, executive. ...