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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here Snow adopted the role of storyteller and began to describe the two characters in his cast: Sir Henry Tizard, "the best scientific mind in our time that has ever applied itself to war," and F. A. Lindemenn, Lord Cherwell, who was Winston Ohurchill's "grey eminence" in scientific matters during the thirties and into...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Snow Gives First Godkin Lecture | 11/30/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Snow Gives First Godkin Lecture | 11/30/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Snow Gives First Godkin Lecture | 11/30/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Snow Gives First Godkin Lecture | 11/30/1960 | See Source »

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