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Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys [1] CH, PC ( / sændz /; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II .
Duncan Sandys (born Jan. 24, 1908, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1987, London) was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935.
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5 de ago. de 2019 · Extract. Duncan Sandys was the last of Harold Macmillan’s four Colonial Secretaries who oversaw the dismantling of Britain’s postwar empire and also the last to receive serious biographical study. Philip Murphy’s biography of Alan Lennox-Boyd (1955–9) portrays a Colonial Secretary conservative by disposition but deferential ...
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- 2020
27 de nov. de 1987 · Lord Duncan-Sandys, the longtime British politician and diplomat who negotiated the independence of nearly a dozen British colonies and territories in the 1960's, died yesterday at his home in...
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (24 de enero de 1908 - 26 de noviembre de 1987), fue un político y ministro británico en sucesivos gobiernos conservadores en las décadas de 1950 y 1960. Fue yerno de Winston Churchill y desempeñó un papel clave en la promoción de la unidad europea después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
10 de nov. de 2017 · Sandys played a central role in shaping Conservative policy-making from the 1940 until the 1960s. His ministerial work was latterly dominated by decolonisation but was earlier concerned with defence, housing, local government, denationalisation and nuclear power.
25 de feb. de 2013 · Read this article. Duncan Sandys' tenure at the Ministry of Defence has usually been seen as one of the major turning points in post-war British defence policy. The consensus is that Sandys was a prime mover in bringing about a contraction of Britain's military capabilities in an era when economic constraints, coupled with the need ...
