Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1912 — CLING TO THEIR PRIVILEGES [ARTICLE]

CLING TO THEIR PRIVILEGES

Ambassadors Enjoy Many Rights That Have Been Accorded Them for Centuries, pretty must the same to the average man, but there is a very great difference between the two, inasmuch as an ambassador possesses many privileges abroad that do not pertain to a mere minister. -■ Perhaps the most curious privilege of an ambassador, who is accredited to the ruler of a country and not merely to the government thereof, as is a minister, is that the ambassador may when dismissed turn his back to the sovereign to whose court he has been assigned. described the mode of procedure is as follows: When the audience Is at an end the ambassador waits to he dismissed by the sovereign. When dismissed'the ambassador bows, retires three paces, bows again, turns on his heels and walks to the folding doors. But when the reigning sovereign is a woman a more polite method is employed. To turn his back would be to resign a privilege; therefore the ambassador retires sideways. He keeps one eye on the soverign and with the other he endeavors to find the door. By this unique means he contrives to show all politeness to the sovereign and at the same time retain his ambassadorial privilege in retiring. Another privilege of an ambassador is that of being ushered into the royal presence through folding doors, both of which must be flung wide for him. None save an ambassador can claim this privilege, the greatest-favor in this respect that can bq shown any non-ambassadorial representative consisting in the opening to him of one door only. There Is one privilege of the ambassador, a privilege that sometimes occasions great inconvenience to the ruler, which c&mists of his right to demand admission to the sovereign by dfcy or by night.