Word: lindemann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again, the scenes and the men the speaker described seemed out of a novel C.P. Snow, "Perhaps," one could imagine the novel's narrator saying, "this as a hatred as immediate as love, and Lindemann would have opposed any of Tizard's. Or it may have been simply that Lindemann was attached to his own views...
After F. A. Lindemann, Winston Churchill's scientific adviser, attacked Sir Tizard in 1935, Tizard's secret decision to start a crash program to radar was at stake. In his tirades Tizard, Lindemann proposed Goldberg" alternatives to radar, had an "obsession for mines," Snow...
Snow characterized Tizard as "a patriot in the way of an English naval officer," an amiable, brilliant man "with the face of an intelligent and sensitive frog." "About Lindemann," however, "hung an atmosphere of indefinable malaise." He had, Snow said, the inflated passions of a character in Balsao's novels...
Tizard went into the civil service, in 1934 was made head of the committee to propose measures for England's defense and thus became engaged in the "closed politics" of the scientific bureaucracy. On the other hand, Lindemann used his social connections and friendship with Winston Churchill to enter the "open politics" of Society and Parliament. He became an ally and adviser to Churchill during the period when he was the anti-government spokesman in the Commons...
...historic clash between the two men occurred in '35, when Churchill and Lindemann were allowed to examine Tizard's secret and desperate decision to start a crash program for the development of radar, Snow said. "Within half an hour," Lindemann and turned on his friend, declared that the high priority given radar was an act "equivalent to treason," and bitterly attacked the crash program...