Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loneliest man in Time's man-of-the-week club of 1962 must be George F. Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Kennan is featured in this week's issue together with Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professors who are currently on leave as ambassadors, and are the third and fourth Harvard men to appear on the magazine's cover in two weeks...
Under the title "The Natural Americans," a five-page story describes Kennan, Reischauer (Japan), and Galbraith (India), as "three of the liveliest choices --and likeliest successes" among President Kennedy's 63 new ambassadors. "Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitiveness to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen...and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties...
...Probably the most independent ambassador in the field," Galbraith in New Delhi stays close to Nehru; according to the article, he has been responsible for the three-day postponement of the Goan invasion and for a statement from Nehru modifying the Prime Minister's controversial remarks on Berlin last August...
...Bobby Kennedy issue a joint statement calling the Harvard renegades "soft." "I'm going to send my boys to a school with guts, not some place run by some kind of Hindu nut," Kennedy says. Nehru breaks relations with the U.S., calling Kennedy a "racist," and Ambassador Galbraith a "beanpole." ...Cardinal Cushing wins the Irish sweepstakes and endows a home for old policemen. President Pusey calls Cushing "a great cardinal," and suggests that they hold an "ecumenical summit...
...troops across the Goan frontier. Both the U.S. and the U.N. rushed to head off the impending conflict. In an ironic reversal of roles, Nehru, who savors the part of international peacemaker, found himself on the opposite side of the table. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith four times tried to talk Nehru out of taking military action; Nehru was not listening. Replying to U.N. Acting Secretary-General U. Thant's appeal that India and Portugal negotiate their differences, Nehru said: "It is hardly possible to negotiate with a government that takes its stand on 16th century concepts...