A NEW U.S. EMBASSY
LARGEST IN WORLD BUILDING TO COST £2,500,000 A new United States Embassy, the largest Embassy in the world, is planned in London. It will cost £2,500,000, and the scheme is for the British Government to build it in return for “value received” in the way of Lend-Lease goods and surpluses. The location of the new Embassy, which will be twice as large as the present building, is yet to be fixed. The lease on the present Embassy in Grosvenor Square runs out in September, 1947. And Grosvenor Square, where two other large buildings were leased for the Embassy’s “overflow,” may become London’s memorial to the late President Roosevelt. The new building is part of an American plan to acquire £6,000,000 worth of properties in Britain and the Empire to provide adequate housing for U.S. Embassy and Consular staffs. Altogether the State Department intends to utilise £38,000,000 out of “trading left-overs” in gettinf possession of, or building, new embassies, consulates and residences throughout the world.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 14, 21 August 1946, Page 3
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168A NEW U.S. EMBASSY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 14, 21 August 1946, Page 3
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