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countries, advised co-operation with the Americans, or at any rate doing nothing to hamper them. The fact that his advice was ignored was something he never referred to, though he was sorely tempted to do so in the face of American criticism.
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which made an unbeaten tour of Japan. He graduated with a second in modern history in 1951. On 20 December 1952 he married Hilary Chadwick (d. 1978), daughter of J. C. Brooks, of London; they had two sons and two daughters.
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country was greeted in London with official outrage, but Bullard, who knew the strong feelings about the
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Bullard spent a year at the Centre for South-East Asia Studies in Cambridge, and from 1977 to 1980 was
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and his wife, Miriam Catherine (Biddy), née Smith (one of his brothers being the diplomat
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High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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in Oxford, which he attended from 1944 to 1945, before three years of
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In 1948 Bullard returned to Balliol, where he was president of the
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High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Kitts and Nevis
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High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Antigua and Barbuda
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After his retirement in 1986 Bullard lived at the Manor House,
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Sofia
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High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Dominica
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Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Barbados
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