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...have just read with interest your cover story [Jan. 12] on Ambassadors Reischauer, Kennan and Galbraith. If all our ambassadors were of this caliber, "the ugly American" image could be permitted to die an unlamented death...
Hearing of Rowan's turndown, U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, undergoing treatment for sinus at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., promptly phoned the White House, then sent a letter of resignation to the club; Galbraith thereby voided the application of President John Kennedy, whom he had sponsored. Also quitting were Swing, Civil War Historian Bruce Catton, Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland, Author James P. Warburg and ABC News Analyst Howard K. Smith...
...Young Galbraith did not feel such diffidence. He studied animal husbandry (which has stood him in good stead as a tireless cow-patter on Indian farm tours), got a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, became an instructor at Harvard and Princeton, but, through it all, he yearned for politics. He bounced around the Washington agencies, and in his spare time constructed an elaborate system for price regulation. In 1941, when Galbraith's system was published, he was hired by Leon Henderson as an official in the newborn Office of Price Administration, later became OPA deputy administrator...
Feudal Friends. At Harvard, Galbraith began turning out books and, at campaign time, Democratic speeches. The experience persuaded him that diplomacy is no different from politics as practiced, say, at a political convention: "You must ask and argue but try to do it without robbing the other person of his personal sovereignty or self-respect...
...diplomat-politician, Galbraith occasionally forgets his own advice about other people's self-respect. In his early days as ambassador, he refused to meet a maharajah with the lofty comment that he did not want to identify himself with "feudal elements." Later he found that maharajahs can be the best of 20th century company. He publicly ridiculed two "end-use observers" on his own staff (experts who watch how U.S. aid is applied), later conceded that they were useful and that in fact he needed