The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The contents include Conference on Current Work in Language Teaching, a Pilot Project in Fundamental Education in Haiti and Marshall travels to the Middle East from 10 November- 17 December 1948 to represent the Rockefeller Foundation at the Third General Conference of Unesco.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The Humanities Program focus is to aid humanistic studies which have a direct relevance to contemporary life, support activities designed to interpret contemporary cultures and encourage study of foreign languages as an aid to eliminate barriers to international cooperation. Marshall attends the Fourth Annual Near East Conference and the U.S. National Conference for Unesco. He also discusses various avenues in which Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Arabic Program could go.