Secretary of Commerce Rogers Morton laid a wreath at the memorial on the site of Warsaw’s old ghetto to the more than three million Polish Jews exterminated by the Nazis during World War II, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was informed. According to William Rhatican, director of the Commerce Department’s communications division. Morton made the gesture shortly after his arrival in Warsaw recently for a meeting of the Polish-American Trade Commission. Rhatican said Morton was accompanied to the memorial by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Robert Hartman, and the American Ambassador to Poland, Richard Davies.
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