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...more. If New Delhi has a more serious criticism of Galbraith, it is that conservative business circles-in which he tends to be dismissed as "that socialist"-have hardly glimpsed the ambassador. Galbraith says businessmen are next on his schedule, has concentrated instead on the most volatile segment of Indian society, its left-wing intellectuals. In a series of major speeches, he has not truckled to their prejudices, but has candidly explored the duties and limitations of free societies. At Madras' Annamalai University recently, he discussed the U.S. role in the world in terms that might also have been...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, 53, bestselling controversialist (The Affluent Society), Harvard economics professor and sometime speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. Canadian-born Galbraith has had half a dozen Government jobs, since 1956 has compiled searching surveys of India's economy, and is now Ambassador to India...
...respect scholars or ideologists. Outwardly, they are as dissimilar as their specialties. Trim (5 ft. 11¼ in., 155 Ibs.), athletic George Kennan is blunt, analytical, professional, and a deeply moral man who agonizes over the increasingly "sterile" clash of East and West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make himself "a lot more agreeable" than is his wont. Slight (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.) Ed Reischauer...
...their jobs, Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith have set markedly individual styles. Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitivity to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen as well as a marked capacity for eloquence, love of exercise and travel, impatience with the failures of U.S. society, and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties. In one of his books, Ed Reischauer says: "Diplomatic relations have grown out of the exchange of personal representatives between kings, and they still preserve some of the aristocratic aura of their origin. But diplomatic relations today are not really between...
Actually, that idea goes back to the Republic's earliest days when Ambassador Ben Franklin appeared at the Court of Versailles wearing an old coat and wielding a crab-apple stick. The name for their own current version of people-to-people diplomacy was suggested by Ambassador Galbraith. Said he: "We don't want the Showy American. We don't want the Ugly American. I am quite willing to settle for the Natural American...