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...Ernest Bevin defended the dispatch of the cruisers as necessary "to insure the protection of life and property," and urged again that the question of title be left up to the International Court of Justice. When an M.P. reminded him that the Guatemalans had threatened to quit buying Scotch whiskey, Bevin boomed that it was all right with him. "I have already suggested," he said, "that it should come to London." (Unfortunately for M.P.s, Guatemala buys but .002% of Britain's Scotch exports...
...delighted when John L. Lewis called him (in 1939) "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man" because "the majority of people will feel that anyone Lewis can't control is all right...
Empty Glasses. Not in any peacetime year since prohibition, said Harry L. Lourie, executive vice president of the National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers, Inc., had importers of liquors been so parched. In 1947, only Scotch whiskey imports were up (2,600,000 cases v. 1,750,000 in 1946). Imports of French cognac (200,000 gallons) and French champagne (151,000 gallons) were off more than two-thirds. Said Lourie: this year looks not much better...
Winston Churchill, who was not at all a favorite of Cleveland Baptist Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, who enlivened a temperance lecture with his own account of Churchill's preparation for the famed Fulton, Mo. talk in 1946. Confided Dr. Clausen: "He loaded himself with champagne and whiskey and highballs and wine...
...were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...