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But that would break a different EU promise - to boost withering European arms industries by trying to buy EU when re-arming EU countries.

The exhibition includes a blackened, withered lemon, 110 years old, which formed part of the evidence against Kurt Muller, caught spying for Germany in 1915.

"Every month, about 1% of their bone and muscles are going to wither away – it's accelerated ageing," Prof Bailey says.

I’ll cook it in the oven and watch as the little piles melt, softening and withering in the heat, before turning into little puddles of melted cheese as they crisp around the edges.

That campaign also carried American political satire to new heights as, typically, a withering political cartoon caricatured a monstrously bloated Hanna, reclining on money bags given by millionaires like banker J.P.