Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved.
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