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...good cellar are classic assets, nowadays the only essential for diplomatic success, as the State Department's Loy Henderson insisted, is "political sensitivity-without it a Ph.D. is useless. With it a high school student is invaluable." Messrs. Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith will not win the cold war by setting fine tables. But they have personable wives, and. above all, they possess political sensitivity to the highest degree...
Personally, John Kenneth Galbraith is almost as popular in India as Ed Reischauer in Japan. Natural American Galbraith has shucked business suits and neckties for casual sports shirts and white-hunter-style bush jackets. In his eagerness to talk to villagers in the middle of a paddyfield, he has even shucked his shoes. One of Galbraith's minor but highly welcome public relations gestures was to wheedle a $15,000 Ford Foundation grant so that he could distribute U.S. books to Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled...
...Post Office. Before he became ambassador, the Indian government retained him as an adviser. In his reports, describing the inertia and inefficiency of India's state-owned industries, Economist Galbraith coined the catch phrase "post-office socialism," proceeded to place the blame for its mediocre showing on "the socialists, who are responsible for the paralyzing belief that success is a matter of faith, not works." In the U.S., where he is himself known as a devout believer in economic planning, these words would sound strange from Galbraith; but amid India's "post-office socialists," he sounds almost like...
...Galbraith is no less critical of the manner in which massive U.S. technical assistance has been frittered away on reams of unessential, unnoticed projects (sample: building better chicken coops). He has persuaded Washington to concentrate technical aid on three high-priority sectors-industrial management, public health, food grain production-that will help India and boost U.S. prestige. Though U.S. aid (nearly $4 billion in ten years) is the biggest outside boost to India's economy, complains the ambassador, it has become so "anonymous and secretive" that few Indians appreciate...
Instant Wording. Despite occasional strains in U.S.-Indian relations, old India hands rate Galbraith as potentially the best ambassador Washington has sent to New Delhi. The job has been eased for him, he admits, by trends that began during the Eisenhower Administration-increased U.S. concern for the unaligned Afro-Asian nations, the view that free, non-Communist countries should qualify for aid without having to join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time...