In this week’s Life’n’Arts podcast, I talk with Nell Breyer, Executive Director of the Association of Marshall Scholars, about the United States and Great Britain in the age of Donald Trump, and the Marshall Scholarships, an unsung element of the postwar architecture of Atlantic security.
In 1953, the British government, led by Winston Churchill, created the Marshall Scholarships as a gesture of gratitude from Britain to the United States for its support during the War, and for the Marshall Plan, economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe between 1948 and 1953. Notable alumni include two current Supreme Court Justices, Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch, and the late 2008 Nobel Prize winner, biochemist Roger Tsien. This year, 43 American graduates students have won scholarships to study at British universities — the largest intake in more than a decade.
George Marshall, he of the eponymous Plan for the reconstruction of postwar Europe, believed that a ‘close accord’ between Britain and the United States was ‘essential to the good of mankind in this turbulent world of today’.
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