In wrathful defense of their wines Australian editors lashed President Roosevelt last week, demanding that Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons "take reprisal" for Washington's omission of Australia from the list of countries assigned a quota for U. S. import of their wines (TIME. Dec. 11).
Australia was omitted, not because of any Roosevelt animus toward vineyardists down under, but because the President's quotas are based on the wine exports of countries to the U. S. before Prohibition. At that time Australia's export trade in wine was an almost invisible trickle.
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