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Duncan Sandys était un pur produit de l’ Establishment britannique : fils d'un député conservateur, élevé à Eton, il poursuit ses études au Magdalen College de l' université d'Oxford et devint diplomate, notamment à Berlin. À ce poste, il mit en garde le Foreign Office contre le réarmement clandestin allemand ; il fut rappelé à ...
Extract from a draft minute from Prime Minister Anthony Eden (written by Cabinet Secretary, Norman Brooke) to Duncan Sandys, Minister of Housing and Local Government. Sandys had commented on the lack of information made to the wider Cabinet on the question of using military force in reaction to President Nasser’s decision to nationalise the canal.
This book offers new perspectives on British nuclear policy-making at the height of the Cold War, arguing that the decisions taken by the British government during the 1950s and 1960s in pursuit of its nuclear ambitions cannot be properly understood without close reference to Duncan Sandys, and in particular the policy preferences that emerged from his experiences of the Second World War and ...
Lord Duncan-Sandys was born 24 January 1908, the only son of Captain George Sandys, formerly MP for Wells, and Mildred. He married Diana Spencer-Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, in 1935 and they divorced in 1960 (she died 1963).
THE IMPACT OF DUNCAN SANDYS: 1957-62 131 rumours. Even so, the Minister of Defence could now inter vene in the affairs of the service ministries as of right - pre viously it had been dependent upon their consent - though the latter retained their right to appeal to the Cabinet. The control of any function common to two or more services could
25 de feb. de 2013 · 1. C. Gordon, “Duncan Sandys and the independent nuclear deterrent,” in I. F. W. Beckett and J. Gooch, eds., Politicians and Defence.Studies in the Formulation of British Defence Policy (Manchester, 1981), pp. 132–53; M. Navis, “‘Vested interests and vanished dreams': Duncan Sandys, the Chiefs of Staff and the 1957 Defence White Paper,” in P. Smith, ed., Government and the Armed ...
The 1957 White Paper on Defence (Cmnd. 124) was a British white paper issued in March 1957 setting forth the perceived future of the British military. [1] It had profound effects on all aspects of the defence industry but probably the most affected was the British aircraft industry. Duncan Sandys, the recently appointed Minister of Defence ...
