¹ Nationalizing defendant Industrial Bank.

² Citing and quoting from Russian Eeinsurance Co. v. Stoddard, 240 N.Y. 149, 163,147 N.E. 703, 707; and Vladikavkazsky Ey. v. New York Trust Co., 263 N.Y. 369, 378,189 N.E. 456, 460.

³ Citing Bollack v. Société Générale, 263 App. Div. 601, 33 N.Y.S. 2d 986; Pleach v.Banque Nationale de la République d’Haiti, 273 App. Div. 224, 77 N.Y.S. 2d 43.

⁴ The British Diplomatic Immunities (Commonwealth Countries and Eepublic of Ireland) Act, 1952, provides: “such members of the official staff of a chief representative as are performing duties substantially corresponding to those performed by members of the official staff of an envoy of a foreign sovereign power shall be entitled to the like immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to members of the official staff of such an envoy.”

⁵ On a somewhat similar point, see Regina v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs (Ex parte Soblen), [1962] 3 All E. R. 373 (Q.BDiv., and Ct. App., July 26, 1962), denying habeas corpus to an alien sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for espionage, who had fled to Israel while on bail and who severely injured himself, while being taken back to the United States, for the purpose of being hospitalized in England. He was denied “leave to land,” though he had been taken from the plane on medical emergency grounds.