Word: galbraith
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There is little danger that Communist China will renew its military attacks on India in the near future, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics and former U.S. Ambassador to India, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night...
...Galbraith acknowledged that the Chinese invasion had resulted partially from two long-range factors--jealousy of Indian social democracy, which "us until now has probably been more successful than the Chinese experiment," and a desire to gain territory, "pleading the righteousness of their 1000-year-old imperialism against the 100-year-old imperialism of the British which the Indians inherited...
...name time, Galbraith continued, the Chinese must have anticipated the Cuban crisis, and hoped it would distract the attention of the United States from anything they might do in India. This view is plausible, he said, since the Chinese withdrawal followed almost immediately upon the removal of missiles from Cuba by the Soviet Union...
Although the military demonstration suceeded, Galbraith said, the Chinese badly miscalculated the American reaction. Despite the Cuban crisis, the United States' response was rapid and carefully planned to avoid committing India to any part in the Cold...
Unlike the other Harvard professors in Washington, Bell has been able to deal with the "same kinds of problems" he studied at Harvard. Before he went to Washington, Bell taught Economics 169, the problems of underdeveloped countries, a course which is now given by J. Kenneth Galbraith...