Truly Scrumptious he can make a new car for the Baron. Truly suggests informing the British government that the rival country has kidnapped a British citizen, but Caractacus wants to save his father so instead they pursue the blimp. Eventually they find the blimp, but see that Baron Bomburst has spotted them with his country government staff and thus they are forced to hide in the nearby village as the Baron releases his army to search for the car. A friendly local Toymaker hides them and informs them that children are forbidden in the country by the Baron's wife, Baroness Bomburst. When
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). He read history at Jesus College, Oxford and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of Warwick, England. Skidelsky's parents, Boris Skidelsky and Galia Sapelkin, were British subjects of Russian ancestry, Jewish on his father's side and Christian on his mother's. His father worked for the family firm, L. S. Skidelsky, which leased the Mulin coalmine from the Chinese government.