NOT SO SURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 9

NOT SO SURE

NEW AMBASSADOR BEY'S PREDECESSOR'S WINE PROBLEM IN UNITED STATES United , P.4.- —By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Wed. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States, landed on Wednesday". In respect to Sir Esme Howard’s

policy of importing no more liquor to the British Embassy, Sir Ronald Lindsay said he was not a teetotaller and would prefer to examine the situation before -deciding. He intimated he would probably not follow Sir Esme Howard’s course.

He had bought what remained o£ his predecessor's stock at the Embassy’s cellar. “It is a severe question,” he added. He would rather look about a bit before discussing it. SALOONS THE ALTERNATIVE “HEART-BREAKS AND POVERTY” Reed. 9.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, Wed. The ex-Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Daniels, testifying before the. House Prohibition hearings, said: “There-was but one alternative to national Prohibition, and that is a return to the old saloon ‘with its heartbreaks and products of drunkenness and poverty.’ ” He admitted “imperfections” in Prohibition, but it was preferable to the saloon. He desired light wines and beers as a solution, declaring that most anti-Prohibitionists “wish their drink would have a kick in it.” Mr. Horace Taft, brother of exPresident Taft, and head of a noted boys' school, testifying, declared his brother, while at first doubtful of Prohibition, later found its results “glori-

Witness said the schools showed the benefit of Prohibition.

Under questioning he admitted that Baron Demumm had “belittled” the accusations that millions were being spent by foreign liquor dealers to urge a repeal of Prohibition in the United States.