The fact that alcohol is less a stimulant than a releaser of the inhibitions was bemoaned last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing by that grand old Victorian snorter, Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon.
As one who has been almost everything, from Governor of the Imperial Ottoman
Bank in Constantinople (1889-97) to Britain's first ambassador in Berlin after the War (1920-26), the noble lord knows alcohol of most nationalities. "Alcohol does badly what it sets out to do," said he last week. "It is not a true stimulant. The result it brings...
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