Postwar
In February 1946, he took a leave of absence from his magazine work for a senior position in the State Department as director of the Office of Economic Security Policy. He was nominally in charge of economic affairs regarding Germany, Japan, Austria, and South Korea, the senior diplomats distrusted him, and he was relegated to routine work with few opportunities to make policy. Galbraith favored détente with the Soviet Union, and was out of step with the Containment policy then being developed by George Kennan and the State Department's policymakers. After a frustrating half year, Galbraith resigned in September 1946 and went back to his magazine writing. In 1947, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey, he founded Americans for Democratic Action to support the cause of economic and social justice.
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