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Show STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIDENT OF FINAL ACTION BY ALLIES WASHINGTON, Dec 1. The state department is awaiting with quiet confidence con-fidence the response ot the entente governments gov-ernments to its presentation of the reasons rea-sons why Count Tarnowski, the newly appointed Austrian ambassador, and his suite should be given safe conduct on his mission to the United States. Although the department did not make a specific request for such a safe conduct, preferring to point out what it regarded as an inalienable right, rather than to appear as seeking a favor, fa-vor, it was felt that the position, taken bv the British government when it sought and secured the release of the confederate commissioners seized by the United States during the civil -war would make it impossible for that government gov-ernment particularly to attempt to den' the right of a neutral state to maintain full and free diplomatic relations with ! a belligerent state. j Tt is assumed, however, that Great j Britain may base its acquiescence in this case on a desire to accommodate a friendly neutral state without committing commit-ting herself specifically to a recognition recogni-tion of the academic right of free movements move-ments on the high sea of diplomatic representatives of a belligerent. |