Der böse Wein
"Colonel Frederick Romilly, Deputy Chairman of the Customs Board, warned that it must not be forgotten that wine is an alcoholic drink and that to consume it in anything but moderate quantities is injurious. In an effort to dissuade the Foreign Office from giving any encouragement to foreign countries about reduction in the British wine duties the Treasury warned that the Methuen Trade Treaty (1703) with Portugal had encouraged the importation of port wine and in so doing was largely responsible for introducing the drunkenness which »disgraced the upper and middle class in the eighteenth century....«"
Nachweis: Jack William Thomas Gaston, Policy Making and Free-Trade Diplomacy: Britain's Commercial Relations with Western Europe, 1869-1886, Diss. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon 1975, S. 82, mit Verweis auf Testimony of Colonel Frederick Romilly, Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the system under which customs dutires are now levied in the country on wine, and into its bearing on the fiscal and commercial interests of the country, Parliamentary Papers 1878-1879 (278), XIV, 298, und Schreiben Treasury to Foreign Office, November 10, 1874, P.R.O. T1/17085.
Nachweis: Jack William Thomas Gaston, Policy Making and Free-Trade Diplomacy: Britain's Commercial Relations with Western Europe, 1869-1886, Diss. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon 1975, S. 82, mit Verweis auf Testimony of Colonel Frederick Romilly, Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the system under which customs dutires are now levied in the country on wine, and into its bearing on the fiscal and commercial interests of the country, Parliamentary Papers 1878-1879 (278), XIV, 298, und Schreiben Treasury to Foreign Office, November 10, 1874, P.R.O. T1/17085.
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