During the second wod war there was hardly a drop of olive oil in england. Lindeman got his brother charles, who was serving in the british embassy in washington, to put a case of Olive Oil in the diplomatic pouch at regular intervals. C p snow remembers one new year's day with lindeman in oxford. The british crown had just published its honors list, people who were being recognized knighthoods and ladyships. He thought he was an expert on everything, even when he wasn't. His friend roy harrord, once wrote of him, he would not shrink from using an argument which he knew to be wrong,