Paris.
TUMULTY, White House,
Washington.
Please ask the Attorney General to advise me what action I can take with regard to removing the ban from the manufacture of drink and as to the form the action should take.
WOODROW WILSON.
On May 12, 1919, I replied to this cable as follows:
White House, Washington,
May 12, 1919.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
Paris, France.
Have consulted Attorney General with regard to removing ban upon manufacture of alcoholic liquor. Am in receipt of a letter from him in which he says: Quote The only action you can take until demobilization may be determined and proclaimed, will be to issue a public statement or send a message to Congress declaring that since the purpose of the Act has been entirely satisfied, nothing prevents your lifting the ban on the manufacture and sale of beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors except the limitations imposed by the Act which maintains it in force until demobilization is terminated after the conclusion of the war. End Quote
TUMULTY.
On May 20, 1919, in a message to Congress, the President made the following recommendation with reference to war-time prohibition: