Word: galbraithe
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...perhaps too confident in his belief that he understands the complicated Nehru, but on the whole he handles him well. Last August, after Nehru made the damaging assertion in the Indian Parliament that he could see no legal basis for Western access to Berlin, Galbraith braced Nehru with documentation. The Prime Minister admitted his error, but said that he would wait to revise his estimate until after the weekend-which would have allowed the error to sink in. At that point, Galbraith suggested a tactfully worded statement modifying Nehru's Berlin judgment. The Prime Minister smiled and, with only...
...sternest test of Galbraith's skill came before the invasion of Goa. He spent two hours trying to dissuade Nehru, rose early next morning to write a forceful two-page memo. Nehru postponed the invasion three days when Galbraith promised that Washington would do its utmost to persuade Portugal to agree to a face-saving U.N. arbitration. The attempt foundered on Portugal's refusal. Once the invasion was over (in 36 hours), Galbraith thought the Goa matter should be dropped, argued that further U.S. censure of India was futile and would only make the Indians tougher to deal...
Lazy W. He got his job because President Kennedy wanted "a man I know" to deal with Nehru. Galbraith feels himself an Administration insider, is probably the most independent ambassador in the field...
...mean, 'I don't think this will work, but don't blame me later.'" On major issues his brisk, elegant telegrams are written more for White House consumption than for the "ice palace," as he sometimes jokingly calls the State Department. The President has blessed Galbraith's independent ways. "It's O.K., Ken," he told the ambassador on one of his reappearances in Washington. "It's why you're paid so highly...
...Galbraith has an instinctive air of authority, can seem commanding even when he is relaxing on a sofa, his long frame folded into a lazy W. "Rightly or wrongly," he says, "I usually have a perfectly clear idea of what to do." He has always had a passion for politics and for the uses of power. His father, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a local Liberal Party leader at lona Station, Ont.; but he was as shy as he was tall (6 ft. 8 in., like his son), and never sought political office...