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Office to The Hague; and on the same day, the British
Ambassador (Dean of the Diplomatic Corps) and the
American Ambassador (second in place on the diplomatic
list) moved their Embassies officially from London to
The Hague, the American Ambassador arriving first in
The Hague of the three.
From that date until March 7, 1947, the principal
tasks of the American Ambassador and his staff have been
tasks of or connected with establishment, maintenance
and cultivation of contacts. The American Government
had owned no real estate in Holland. It has been found
necessary to obtain and equip quarters for the Chancery,
for the Foreign Economic Administration (now abolished),
for the Office of the Naval Attaché, for the Office of
War Information (now USIS); residences for the Ambassador
and for the American personnel (officers and clerks)
of the staff; and offices and residences for the consular
establishments at Amsterdam and at Rotterdam.
In The Hague, thirty percent of the "housing" had
AND
been rendered uninhabitable by the vicissitudes of the
war. Conditions as regarded shelter, food, consumers
goods in general, transportation, public "services",
labor, domestic service, etc. were those of shortages
in many cases almost complete lack. Problems of estab-
lishment were many and difficult. Tasks of procurement
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