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Description:During his time as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith was appointed as US Ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963. His rapport with President Kennedy was such that he regularly bypassed the State Department & sent his diplomatic cables directly to the President. In India, he became an intimate of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, & extensively advised the Indian government on economic matters; he harshly criticised Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British rule, for Mountbatten's passive role in the Partition of India in 1947 & the bloody partition of the Punjab & Bengal. While in India, he helped establish one of the 1st computer science departments, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Even after leaving office, Galbraith remained a friend & supporter of India & hosted a lunch for Indian students at Harvard every year on graduation day. Because of his recommendation, First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy undertook her diplomatic missions in India & Pakistan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years. To get started finding Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 678

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston)

Release: 1969

ISBN: 0395077087

Description: During his time as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith was appointed as US Ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963. His rapport with President Kennedy was such that he regularly bypassed the State Department & sent his diplomatic cables directly to the President. In India, he became an intimate of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, & extensively advised the Indian government on economic matters; he harshly criticised Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British rule, for Mountbatten's passive role in the Partition of India in 1947 & the bloody partition of the Punjab & Bengal. While in India, he helped establish one of the 1st computer science departments, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Even after leaving office, Galbraith remained a friend & supporter of India & hosted a lunch for Indian students at Harvard every year on graduation day. Because of his recommendation, First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy undertook her diplomatic missions in India & Pakistan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years. To get started finding Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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