Item COLD WAR 27/2 - Transcript of interview with Professor J K Galbraith, 1995

Typescript transcript of interview with Prof John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and academic, Deputy Administrator, US Office of Price Administration 1942-1943, Director US Strategic Bombing Survey 1945, Director Office of Economic Security Policy, State Dept, 1946, Professor of Economics, Harvard University 1949-1975, adviser to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's administration, early 1960s, US Ambassador to India, 1961-1963, relating to his views on war reparations and US policy towards Germany and Japan following World War 2; the character of the US State Department and its anti-Soviet culture; the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948; the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism) and US reaction to the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Oct 1949 under a communist regime; the role of the American Committee on East West Accord; the impact of the Korean and Vietnam Wars on the US economy and political life, 1950-1968; his general views on the Cold War and the causes of its end. 23pp