AMBASSADOR Robert Holmes Tuttle

Speeches, Remarks & Events

05 June 2007
Ambassador Tuttle Visits Oxford and Launches Marshall Plan Video Contest

On June 5, 2007, U.S. Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle gave a speech at Oxford University entitled, “The Marshall Plan: remembering the past, looking to the future.” The event was held on the sixtieth anniversary of Secretary George Marshall’s speech announcing the Marshall Plan for Europe.
Left: Ambassador Tuttle speaking at Rhodes House, Oxford, June 5, 2007.
(Photo courtesy Rob Judges, Oxford University)

Ambassador Tuttle was hosted by the Rothermere American Institute at Rhodes House and the event was attended by 100 students, academics, and members of the Oxford community. The speech was both a retrospective on Secretary Marshall and his experiences, as well as a look through the Marshall lens at U.S. foreign policy today, and the Ambassador took several thoughtful questions from the audience afterwards. The U.S. position on climate change and joint U.S.-UK involvement in Iraq, Sudan, and other arenas were part of the discussion.

The Ambassador also formally launched the Marshall Plan Digital Documentary Commemorative Contest (click to open in new window), a competition run by the Embassy’s Cultural Affairs Office in partnership with BEBO, a social networking site, and the Imperial War Museum.

He explained the contest’s challenge to participants to create a personal, creative, digital, historical record of memories of the rebuilding of the United Kingdom after World War II and to share them via the BEBO site. Prizes will be awarded for the best entries, which will also be featured in a public exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Grand prize will be a trip for two to the United States.

With the speech’s focus on United States-United Kingdom partnership, friendship, and cooperation, the launch of the contest was ideal, and the Ambassador encouraged audience-members to pass on the contest information to their friends, family, or colleagues who might be interested.

Jump to: Marshall Plan Contest webpage (opens in new window.

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