London's historic Grosvenor Square has been a stamping ground for Americans ever since 1785, when John Adams, first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, moved in at No. 9, on the corner of Brook Street. But though U.S. offices clustered so thickly around the square in World War II that Londoners called the area "Eisenhowerplatz" (now "Little America"), the U.S. never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably by 1958, and 2) entrust the design to one...
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