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Though the award itself is open to students with any career interest, the Marshall program, with its origins in the Foreign Office, has always had a diplomatic bent. Annual reports from the first few decades of the Scholarship were consistently peppered with accounts of government officialdom interacting with unsuspecting Marshall Scholars. From 1974: “In this time the Scholars were entertained at a reception given by Her Majesty’s Government at Lancaster House, St. James’s, where they were welcomed by the Right Hon. Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhevie, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; they were also conducted a tour of the Houses of Parliament by Mr. C. S. A. Dobson, Librarian British–American Parliamentary Group. The welcoming functions concluded with a lunch held by the Commission at the Haberdashers’ Hall, Staining Lane, London, E.C.2 (by kind permission of the Master and Wardens of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers).”
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1. Hetherington to Makins, The National Archives, FO 371/97650, 23 May 1952.
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2. “Twentieth Annual Report of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission,” United States No. 1 (1974) Cmnd. 5555, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, March 1974.
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3. The Queen Mother’s attendance, unlike the others, was never officially recorded in any Annual Report of the Scholarship, though Scholars have recalled her presence. Author interview with Gary Hufbauer (‘60), 7 May 2014.
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4. As explained in Chapter 7, everyday operations of the Marshall Scholarship—though overseen by the MACC, a non-departmental public body—are administered and managed by a permanent secretariat housed in the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
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5. Author interview with Hufbauer, 7 May 2014.
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6. Today, the Deputy Secretary-General of the ACU is the Executive Secretary to the MACC. As the Deputy Secretary-General bills only 15 days a year on Marshall-related work, almost all of the day-to-day administration is managed by the Assistant Secretary.
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7. Author interview with Bill Janeway, 16 August 2013.
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8. Author interview with Lawrence Wilkinson, 17 June 2014.
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9. Anonymous submission, “Miss Geraldine Cully: In Memoriam,” Marshall Update: A Newsletter for Scholars Past and Present, Fall 2005, p. 10, Accessed June 2014, Available: http://www.marshallscholars.org/media/newsletter/223_Marshall%20Update%20Fall%202005.pdf.
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10. Ms. Mary Coppinger also held the position of Assistant Secretary from 1956-61, but the role expanded during Cully’s years. Only two other individuals are mentioned in the records before Cully as assistants, A.L. Fleet and Mrs. B. Norman-Butler, though they seemed to have performed the role of ‘Scholarships Assistant’ rather than ‘Assistant Secretary,’ and otherwise acted as a personal secretary to Foster. The Assistant Secretary position became far more prominent in the Marshall program under Cully.
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11. Author interview with Dow, 25 June 2014.
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12. Author interview with Mary Denyer, 9 June 2014.
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13. Author interview with Dow, 25 June 2014.
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Mukharji, A. (2016). Ministry of Marshall. In: Diplomas and Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58653-7_17
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