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 Secre tary of State for Latin American Affairs, 1945-47; impressions of Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, and Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Government executives--United States; Ambassadors--United States; Copper mines and mining; World War, 1939-1945; Latin America Politics and government 1830-1948; United States Foreign relations 1933-1945; United States Foreign relations 1945-1953; Braden, Spruille, 1894-1978
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1956
Note (Biographical)
Diplomat, mining engineer, executive
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit