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...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 used by Colleagues Kennan and Reischauer, and indeed by any U.S. ambassador...
...plus allowances, Reischauer also gets $27,500, Kennan...
...author (Wanted: An Asian Policy), and formerly (1956-60) director of Harvard's Center for East Asian Studies. He has spent 18 years in Japan, has a Japanese wife, is fluent in Japanese, reads Chinese, and is one of the leading U.S. authorities on Asian literature and history. Reischauer has had State Department experience as a Far Eastern deskman during Asia's postwar upheaval (1945-46), is now Ambassador to Japan...
...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 is a low-key, hard-driving teetotaler whose Oriental serenity and upbringing have prompted the Japanese to treat him like an honorable cousin...
...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...