[In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s novel satirizing journalism, Mr. Baldwin—an international financier and businessman who protects British economic and mineral interests during the civil war—gives the following instructions to William Boot, the author of a nature column entitled Lush Places who has been mistakenly sent out to Ishmaelia [presumably modern-day Ethiopia] to serve as the Daily Menace’s [presumably a slap at the Daily Mail] foreign correspondent:]

You should ask me whether I have any message for the British public. I have. It is this: Might must find a way. Not ‘Force’ remember; other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might’.

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