From: "Geeta Doctor" < A recent report in _The Times_ on the drinking habits of British MPs concludes with this anecdote...George Brown, foreign secretary under Harold Wilson, was famed for his drinking, with perhaps the most well-known session occurring at a reception on an official visit to Brazil. Spying an attractive young person in a red dress, he asked for a dance. “There are three reasons, Brown, why I will not dance with you,” the object of his affection reputedly replied. “The first, I fear, is that you’ve had too much to drink. The second is that this is not, as you suppose, a waltz that the orchestra is playing but the Peruvian national anthem, for which you should be standing to attention. And the third reason why we may not dance, Mr. Brown, is that I am the cardinal of Lima.”
