jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> Apud Kevin Gowen <kgowen@nogmailspam.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
>>> Apud Kevin Gowen <kgowen@nogmailspam.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>>>
>>>> ... Oh, and the embassy is not U.S. soil. Common myth.
>>> Many years ago, being born in France rendered males liable for
>>> military service, regardless of the nationality of the parents.
>>> The British embassy in Paris had a special confinement wing
>>> where British women resident in France could give birth, thus 
>>> avoiding the risk of their male offspring finding themselves
>>> subject to "la conscription". In the eyes of the French
>>> government at least, the UK embassy was not "French soil". 
> 
>> I haven't read that now defunct law, so I can't comment. It is also
>> possible that the law had provisions that made exceptions for diplomats,
>> which I think is a more likely possibility. 
> 
> I read the anecdote in an autobiography of a guy who explained
> why he came to be born in the British emabassy. His parents certainly
> weren't diplomats.

I see. That detail would have been helpful. Of course, it's still an
anecdote. Slightly higher on the reliability scale than a short story.

>> Embassies are the territory of the host nation, not of the sending
>> state. I think the myth arises from the inviolability that embassies
>> have under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which codified
>> the customary practice of diplomatic immunity in the same spirit.
> 
> 春喉

Deedin.

- Kevin

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