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...real and "very clever" reason for the Red Chinese attack on India last year was China's desire to destroy India's prestigious image of neutrality, John Kenneth Galbraith said last night...
...Chinese, explained Galbraith to a packed Dunster House Junior Common Room, "clearly clobbered" that position by forcing India to seek Western aid and to worry about further support from her Asian neighbors...
...teaching corps is needed, Galbraith said, because the poorest communities almost always have the worst teachers. His plan would provide a core of teachers, counselors, and administrators to work through the public school systems in these communities. Their example presumably would draw more high-quality personnel to the schools...
Finances for the corps would come from the federal government. Its members should be paid very good salaries, Galbraith emphasized, and their contracts should stipulate that they would go wherever the government chose to send them. The teaching corps would be coordinated with the community action programs of the current anti-poverty bill. Commenting on the size of the funds proposed for the "war on poverty." Galbraith said, "the important thing this year is to get started, and the direction is right." The amounts that have been allotted are small, he went on, and will have to be expanded...
...Galbraith predicted that the main opposition to the anti-poverty proposals will come from Republicans and Southern Democrats who consider "poverty a minor evil compared to spending money...