"It may well be, that the future historian, asked to point to the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars will reply without hesitation, "Colonel Blimp"."
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C. S. Lewis "Blimpophobia", in Time and Tide (9 September 1944)
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David Low (cartoonist)
Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand cartoonist who settled in England. His most famous creation was Colonel Blimp, a pompous, befuddled, reactionary, military buffoon.
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