WW2, Churchill, science and technology and C.P. Snow

[Mark Kohut]

According to the young scientist most involved, Churchill asked in 1940, in fact when France surrendered,
 about this scientist's claim that Germany was using radio beams to target Britain. Almost no one believed the claim. Churchill let him 
work on that assumption and, within months, the radio beams were jammed. A huge step in the ultimate victory. 

Churchill was "alone among politicians [in that] he valued science and technology at something approaching their true
worth, at least in the military application.".....

C.P [Two Cultures] Snow, whose fiction I saw all over a library discards sale the other day, had an apercu about Churchill:
"Winston could not be an alcoholic, since no alcoholic could drink so much."
                      
                             ----all of the above from The Last Lion, vol 3
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