?
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16
4.
privilege is accorded to diplomatic envoys but as a
matter of courtesy only (Oppenheim, International
Law, 5th edition Vol. I p. 626) and it might, I suppose
also as a matter of courtesy, be accorded in the U.K.
to those high officers of U.N.R.R.A. to whom Part I
of the Schedule to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1944
is applied (see S. R. & 0. 1945, No. 79, Articles 3
and 4).
In para. 3 of (15) the Governor asks for
information as to the scope of the tax exemption granted
to diplomatic envoys. I suggest that the Governor
be referred to Oppenheim, International Law (5th
edition), Vol. I, pp. 626-7 and that it be pointed out
that the full tax exemption of a diplomatic envoy is
accorded in the U.K. only to those high officials of
U.N.R.R.A. to whom Part II of the Schedule to the
Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1944, is applied, while
other U.N.R.R.A. officials, with certain exceptions,
enjoy the exemptions set out in Part III of that
Schedule (see S. R. & 0. 1945, No. 79, Articles 3 to 6).
JC. 7c Pelrie
6.11.46.
I have
discussed this with Mr. MacPetrie
and have placed on the file a letter which he received
from Mr. Fawcett, one of the Foreign Office Legal
Advisers, in response to the telephone request for
the sources from which our legal obligation mentioned
in 22 is derived. It will be seen that Mr. Fawcett
As says that the obligation is only a moral one.
this may possibly conflict with an opinion expressed
/by