Oral history interview with Spruille Braden, 1956.

Biographical Note

Diplomat, mining engineer, executive

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Ambassadors--United States--Interviews.
• Braden, Spruille, 1894-1978--Interviews.
• Copper mines and mining.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Latin America--Politics and government--1830-1948.
• Link, Wendell H., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1978