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...have just read with interest your cover story [Jan. 12] on Ambassadors Reischauer, Kennan and Galbraith. If all our ambassadors were of this caliber, "the ugly American" image could be permitted to die an unlamented death...
Favorable Moment. Both in and outside the embassy, which has responsibility for 2,469 employees (all but 392 are Japanese), Mr. and Mrs. Reischauer are a major social attraction. After its baseball team scored a 6-5 victory over the Japanese Foreign Office team, led by athletic Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, the embassy staff gave the ambassador its Most Valuable Player award. At a festival in the seaport where Commodore Perry came ashore in 1853, Reischauer topped the bill. He wore a yukata, Japan...
...Reischauer knows that diplomacy is not a popularity contest. He arrived in Japan at a favorable moment, when a reaction against the earlier violence had already set in, and he now concedes that Predecessor MacArthur on the whole did a good job in a difficult period. Reischauer's own stiff tests still lie ahead. One of them: defense, U.S. occupation of Okinawa is a continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income...
From unusually close contact with his fellow natives of Tokyo, Ambassador Reischauer believes that the tide of neutralism is ebbing. "I'm vastly encouraged," he says. "There is a much clearer realization of world realities...
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...