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Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...
...paper was opposed by Tizard and other English scientists, on scientific grounds, Tizard and P. M. S. Blackett, another physicist, Lindemann's estimates of the effectiveness of strategic bombing five or six times too high, "Everyone knew that if Tizard and Blackett were right, the thing was not worth doing," know noted. But Lindemann was in power, and his policy was put into effect...
After the war's end, the strategic bombing survey reported that Lindemann's estimates had been ten times too high. And Tizard was able to say, "The actual effort in manpower and resources that was expended in bombing Germany was greater than the value in manpower of the damage caused...
...Tizard sat out the rest of the war in retirement as president of Magdalene College, Oxford. "It is astonishing in retrospect that he should have been offered such humiliations," Snow said. "I do not think there has been a comparable example in England in this century...
...Tizard believed to the end of his life in 1959 that, if he had been granted a fair share of the scientific direction between '40 and 48', the war might have ended earlier, and with less cost, Snow said