We’re also talking about Washington, D.C... There happened to be scores of embassies. This isn’t some little backwater town in the hills, it is the center of the nation. I refuse to believe the could not find a translator in that city.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/green-paint-found-on-smithsonian-statue-organ-at-national-cathedral/2013/07/29/3d65169a-f884-11e2-b018-5b8251f0c56e_story_1.html