PROHIBITION: Headmen

Sir Ronald Lindsay, Britain's new headman in the U. S., last week filed with the State Department a request to import a large stock of rare wines, vintage champagnes, old whiskies, brandies. U. S. Wets cheered what they took for a change of policy. Fact was that Sir Ronald was simply deciding for himself a question which his predecessor, Sir Esme Howard, had handled with a gesture. The British Embassy has never actually "gone dry." Toward the end of his term Sir Esme Howard, perceiving there was enough to last until he...

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