The interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world . . ."
"No!" cried Ireland's Gerald Boland.
"With all due apologies to my Irish friends," Boothby went on,...
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