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Es war ein offenes Geheimnis, dass sich Diplomaten über kleinliche Zollpflichten stets hinwegsetzen – was selbst nach Ryans katholischen Moralbegriffen eine allenfalls lässliche Sünde war und somit verzeihlich.
It was an open secret that diplomats didn't trouble themselves with customs duties for such things as perfumes for their wives (or significant others) and/or booze for themselves, but to Ryan's Catholic measure of personal conduct, these were venial sins, not mortal.
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