"A group of refugee scientists was gathered outside the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford the next morning discussing the Munich agreement when Frederick Lindemann drove up.937 Churchill had described the Czechoslovakian partition as amounting to "the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force."938 Lindemann, Churchill's intimate adviser, was equally disgusted. One of the refugees asked him if he thought Chamberlain had something up his sleeve. "No," the Prof snapped, "something down his pants."