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...great danger of the powerful position held by Churchill's friend, Lindemann, in military policy making was not, Snow maintains, due to his personal incompetence or misjudgments per so. Snow asserts instead that, "Whoever he is, whether he is the wisest scientist in the world, we must never tolerate a scientific overlord again...
...critics have pointed out, Snow agrees that Lindemann may indeed have acknowledged from the start that radar was an important weapon to develop for the defense of the British Isles. But, he counters, Lindemann almost fatally hampered the successful development of radar by assigning highest priority to his own gimmicks...
...peacetime shelter program might harm American society to the point of jeopardizing democracy, according to a report by a Peace Research Institute conference. Three University professors participated in the conference: David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Erich Lindemann, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Raymond A. Bauer, professor of Business Administration...
Watson-Watts says that Snow's account is "nonsense." Snow's descriptions of Lindemann's villainous character are factually incorrect: "the Lindemann I knew was astonishingly unlike the abominable Snow man." According to Watson-Watt, Lindemann supported the development of radar all along, and contrary to Snow's "melodramatic stage character," he was an able, intelligent administrator...
Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...