For two years Polish squatters have refused to budge from the two top floors of the building officially set aside for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. Offers of 150,000 zlotys ($1,500) per family have failed to move them. Meanwhile, the U.S. Ambassador has had to live in the dumpy, third-rate Hotel Polonia.
Last week the new U.S. Ambassador, Stanton Griffis, a former businessman and captain on the U.S. General Staff during the World War I, decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios,...
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