THE HEMISPHERE: Frankly, No Marines

Big, forceful Spruille Braden marchedup to an NBC microphone last week, gave some straight talk on what theU.S. was up to in Latin America. The U.S., boomed Braden, thoughtUruguayan Foreign Minister Rodriguez Larreta’s proposal for joint,tough measures against any American nation that violates “theelementary rights of man” was good stuff, “sound.” That didn’t mean,explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to “send the Marinesanywhere.” But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets,”while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a warendeavors to entrench itself in this hemisphere.”

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