As soon as the doctors' orders in the matter of
alcohol as a medi eine were withdrawn, the King went back to his policy of non- intoxicants, though prepared, again like a sensible man, to obey his doctors' orders if and when they should be renewed on grounds of health. It must be added that at no time has there been any relaxation of the King's orders to make the Royal Palaces what our Transatlantic friends would call " dry " during the war. No wino is served even at dinner-parties at Buckingham Palace or Windsor, and when the King is a guest at military messes or with the Fleet, it is not etiquette for any wines or liqueurs to be placed on the table. Once more, the King's willingness to obey his doctors' orders was a happy accident, for it has shown that good sense and not fanaticism governs the whole demand for Prohibition during the War. No reasonable War Prohibitionist wants to put alcohol, from the medical point of view, under a ban.
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