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Diplomats

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  • 29-12-2013 12:32pm
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    roundymac
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    What would have have happened to these people once their respective countries went to war? Were they given advance notice to leave or would they have been left to their own devices.Would they have been given safe passage to exit or were they taken prisioner or worse? I'm thinking more of the Russian and German staff as well as the American's in Japan as diplomatic conventions were probably not followed by these countries.


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    Manach
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    Offhand there are a numerous conventions such that as the Vienna one along with other earlier ones in international law that allow at least for belligerent diplomats to leave the country. If not, their own home country diplomats would suffer consequences if not then, in future conflicts. Though this does not cover ordinary citizens and who were subject to internment.


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    roundymac
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    I was more interested in what happened to the German and Russian diplomats in 1941, also what happened to the American and Japanese after Pearl Harbour.


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    Jawgap
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    Here's an account of what happened to the Americans diplomats in Tokyo on and after Pearl Harbour Day....

    http://adst.org/2013/11/life-in-embassy-tokyo-after-pearl-harbor/

    Towards the end there's an interesting bit about what happened when the former US anbassador to Japan met the serving Japanese ambassador to the country through which they were transiting back to the States.


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