From ‘News of the Week,’ The Spectator, 1 May 1915:
The Government plans for dealing with the liquor problem have ended, as we feared, in “a moist relentment” of small beer and large taxation. Mr. Lloyd George, whom we must entirely exempt from our condemnation of the Government’s cowardly opportunism, evidently failed to induce his colleagues to deal adequately with the obstacles which drink is putting in the way of our national efficiency for war purposes. They would not seize an opportunity which will never occur again for giving the nation a free hand in dealing with the liquor problem, and in delivering us from a monopoly which experience has shown may prove a great danger in a national crisis.
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