ADVERTISEMENTS OF LIQUOR
RESTRICTION HILL DEFEATED BY HOl>'E OF LORDS (Received March 2l>, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. In the House of Lords, Lord Arnold moved the second reading of the Intoxicating Liquor Advertisement Regulation Bill. He said that drink advertisements had become ,a public danger. Because the consumption of beer had steadily declined since the war. the brewers had embarked on an advertisement, campaign to tempt the new genei ation. These advertisements should be restricted, as was already done with inonevlenders' advertisements. Lord Askwith moved the rejection of this "absurd and unenforceable bill, under which Omar Khayyam will have to be prohibited, the Bible expurgated, and Horace quoted with the greatest care." The Bishop of London, as a nonfanatical teetotaller, supported the biJl " • , , . The Earl of Keversham said that, the Government, regarded the bill as neither practicable nor justifiable. The bill was debated witnmit a division.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21436, 30 March 1935, Page 13
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