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...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 by The Last Hurrah. Ken Galbraith still has to fork out $500 a gross for the book that influential Indians seem to want most. Says he: "I thought it would be a bit raw to have the Ford...
...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, is now remembered as having tried too hard to woo the Indians. Galbraith has a wider field of effectiveness and is closer to Nehru than either of his immediate predecessors, for the simple reason, as New Delhi sees it, that "they have more to talk about...
...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...
...lesser-known works of his first year was supplying Indians with American books, obtained with a Ford Foundation grant. The Last Hurrah pleased Nehru but "the book that influential Indians seem to want most" is Galbraith's own The Affluent Society...