Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass hats. - Thomas Jones

Politically I was an "inevitable gradualist", basically rather to the left of the Prime Ministers, but with a faith free from any dogmatic finality or Utopian perfection. I had no credal difficulty in serving each Minister in turn; we were all infected with Liberalism. I had all the influence I could wield; the only limit was my own inadequacy. By tradition I was a Welsh radical nonconformist, by temperament I was a civil servant, law-abiding, a believer in ordered progress. I believed a little in each of the three Parties, more in the Left than in the Right—"a sort of Burke with a leaven of Shelley".