WHO ARE THE HUNS?

86 Treatment of Diplomatic Representatives.
Embassy and the square is one clear proof of the criminal
connivance of the government. As early as n o'clock the
German officials had spoken with the American chargé d'affaires
who declared that he had already asked the Foreign Office
for protection. The Austrian-Hungarian Ambassador at i
o'clock called the attention of M. Sasanoff to these unheard of
proceedings on the part of the populace, but received the
incredible answer: "Ils ont cassé quelques vitres," This frivolous
remark is illuminated in the findings of the American Embassy :
"The German Embassy was completely wrecked by the mob,
not a single article of furniture being left undestroyed." This
heroic act on the part of the Russian Government may best
be characterized by the famous words of Roman Dmowski:
"The Russian people have many good qualities, but the government
is an Asiatic one."
The ambassadorial privileges and exemptions according to
all universally accepted legal opinions, extend also to the
other members of the embassies, especially the secretaries,
dragomans, and others. The guaranty afforded by international
law also covers the buildings of the embassy, and in particular
the archives of the diplomatic mission in question—even in
times of war. The buildings of the consulates and their archives
are also to be held inviolate.
The wrecking of the Embassy, the murder of one of its
officials, the arrest of the other, are not only serious crimes
under the penal code, but are most flagrant examples of an
outrageous trampling upon the law of nations. These shocking
wrongs cry to heaven for vengeance. They almost cause one
to despair of ever again restoring the respect of mankind for
international law. It is through actions such as these that
"civilized" Great Powers, and "Christian" states sink to the
level of negro republics and African negro communities.
The outbreak of war between the state that sends the
ambassador and the state that receives him, leads, it is true,
to a suspension of diplomatic relations, but persons and property
remain as before inviolable. Of course no belligerent
state need tolerate the diplomatic mission of its opponent upon
its own territory, it may also demand that its staff take its
departure, but the immediate arrest of persons who have been