Ready

Ready though the public was to submit to the necessities of an abnormal situation [World War I], it was to receive a great many surprises about the scope of the public safety and the defence of the realm. In the succeeding years the country was to learn, as never before, the unsuspected lengths to which uncontrolled executive legislation and action would be carried. The public was ready and anxious to assist the war effort in every possible way, but some imagination was needed to see how such matters as an amendment of the Dogs Act, 1906 (Reg. 2S), or the prohibition of dog-shows (Reg. 9DD) or the supply of cocaine to actresses (Reg. 40B), were connected with the defence of the realm.

— C. K. Allen, Law and Orders (1945)

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