“A family portrait not too stale to record
Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord,
Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword,
And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad:
Just like an old liberal
Between the wars.”

— William Plomer

"Father and Son: 1939", line 1.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires

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