'DIPLOMATIC LIQUOR"
THE EMBASSIES' QUOTA The port of Baltimore is one place in the United Slates where liquor can be unloaded unmolested. To this port is consigned the supply which ilie foreign legations and embassies are permitted to import for their private use. Stevedores unload the cases, then representatives of the embassies and legations present papers issued by the United States Government ami ride away with the trucks to Washington D.C., in the manner prescribed by the State denartmenl. In a recent shipment landed ;i! I*r 11 - timorc were consignments for envoys '.•l' eight foreign nations. Though the prohibition law di.es not allow the importation of liquor by I'ireign envoys. Ihe immunity granted them under intcrna:ion:il law is sufficienl •■:, permit importations. Tin* State department require ■- an at laehc of the legation lo which the liquor is hound to accompany the truck which carries Ins shipment from I'altimore to [lie nalionid capital. Under these circumstances t'iere cm he im interference by dry agents or policemen.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 5
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164'DIPLOMATIC LIQUOR" Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 5
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