Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — Ambassador’s Privileges. [ARTICLE]

Ambassador’s Privileges.

An accredited ambassador is wholly free from the jurisdiction of the courts of law or of any other authority In the country to whlcjh he is sent. His house is as sacred as his person. It, is regarded not as belonging to the country in which he is living, but as a part of the country which sen,t him. It could no more be entered by the police than a town could be occupied by the soldiery of another nation. This protection is extended to the inmates of the house. If a wrong is committed by some one in the employ of an embassy, in any capacity, the only means of redress is an appeal to the ambassador or to the government which sent him, and which will not, it is supposed, allow a wrong to be sheltered under the peculiar privileges granted its representative.