Show 00 I SteW lots h WASHINGTON WASHINGTON- Li J A DIPLOMATIC I IMMUNITY IS HANDY rOK VOil Ul fly P STEW ItT XI Et Service Writer WASHINGTON Sept A 23 23 powered powered car from one or of ortho the tho foreign locations legations here ran Into a poor old Washingtonian or of nearly 80 SO the th other day as he was along R it Street and killed him All accounts agree that It was nn an Inexcusable accident wasI I It if anything o but bu a 0 dIplomatic car had been Leen responsible for forIt forIt It In rt all probability the th drIver would face raco charges charees of or man man- manslaughter man slaughter nut But a a diplomat can get away with anything He simp simply limply I flashes his diplo diplo- diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic matic card claims diplomatic immunity gets the tho police salute and that ends it so far tar as a hc's concerned Diplomatic Immunity Is la rec- rec recognized recognized the tho world over The Tho theory Is that a diplomat Isn't subject to the tho laws law ot or the country hes he's he accredited to No especial exception Is made In his favor In the th statute books but Its It's International usage It If a diplomat does docs something that positively cant can't be tolerated his home homo government can be ask ask- asked asked ask asked ed to recall him but buth he mustn't be punished by the th ono one whose 1 guest he h Is Ia 1 Even the most peo people pIe feel terribly mortified It Ir any thing unpleasant befalls a 0 foreign envoy who has ha trusted In their midst late Hate Hat him through they may they must retard regard whilo hl him like a 0 million dollars dollar I ollar while whilo ItO le s with them In his official capaci copal capacity capacity t ty The diplomat corps In Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington responsible Is I made mode up oC ot ble blo folk in the main The They dont don't take tako advantage or of diplomatic Immunity to commit burglary arson and murder A Afew Afew few of or them have been suspected of holding prohibition In n rather light esteem but Its It's us IS traffic law offenders that they're the biggest t nuisance Many a man who'd shrInk from deliberate crime will wilt fudge ft a little on speed even cven at the rl risk k or of o paying som tomo somo penal penal- penalty ty or 01 other for It How much more will wilt he ho tu fudge e It Ir he knows he be can do It In iii perfect safety to to himself not to others Let It be b assumed that the way woy way up sip men dIplomats diplomats men or of o years and discretion like liko British h Am- Am Am Ambassador Sir Esmo Esme Howard Howord and Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo and Minister Con Con- Constantin Constantin Con stantin Brun Drun or of o have Denmark Denmark judgment and caution enough nough to tell their chauffeurs to keep off orr the accelerator The fact remains remain that thit all the embassies and nd legations have corps of or attaches secretaries rles clerks and end other underlines sporty youths with Iota loti of or jazz In their blood and little sense or of responsibility bill 1 Thero There arc are f 2 embassies and legations In Washington Its It's If a avery avery very ery skimpy one which doesn't muster a personnel of or half a dos doz- dozen dosen doz dozen en and some run up tip to 10 0 0 or more Six to seven hundred Is Isa Isa Isa a moderate moderato estimate of ot the total quite quite a D colony Now turn that number loose In a community with an un equal number of automobiles for automobiles for most ot of them have plus oem cm plus diplo matic matle matic Immunity and youve youve you've got gota cota a 0 town where lites lite's life an uncertain thing for tor pedestrians 00 |