OFFICIAL RULING
AN EMBASSY DEFINED
What constitutes an Embassy or
informs the inquirer that "they are the A reSidenceS respectively of an Ambassador and Minister, even the practised Ihostesss often errs in this matter, states 4 a London writer. \j When a diplomat for insta nce ( lives U . , , ' n . . ,;! in a house aPart from hls chancery, 1} which is the Embassy or Legationthe private residence or the official? The grow th of diplomatic work and L. ~ „ , ~ . '/Consequently °f staffs, in many cases l^ ecessitating a separate house to ac- | c^mmodate them, is largely responbible for the confusion, \ Ahi h official of th diplomatic ser . I . , . ~ *x . <Vzce has §lven an authoritative ruling IP «. the subject. Both the diplomat's ja ouse and his chancery are, he states, ;WUe Embassy or Legatiori. •„, • , TA - Embassies an* Legations being reigarde'd as the soil of the diplomat's
|i& ative land, his house cannot be merejjy - his residence. , _ JTsually the offices are referred to as 6fnces or chancery of the Embassy or Legation, and this is quite correct. It is, however, incorrect to speak of a (diplomat's residence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 14
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182OFFICIAL RULING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 14
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