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Duncan Sandys was one of the leading Conservative politicians of the middle decades of twentieth-century Britain. He was also a key figure in the Harold Macmillan’s ‘Winds of Change’ policy of decolonisation, serving as Secretary for the Colonies and Commonwealth Relations from 1960 to 1964. When he lost office he fought strenuously to ...
5 de dic. de 2008 · Long understood as the key document in Britain's Cold War history, the Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 nevertheless has a largely forgotten context: home defence. This article argues that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and the reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded.
Duncan Sandys, the tough-talking 'hatchet man', had been an ideal agent for this process of change. In 1945 there was nothing new about the concept of deterrence; only the size of the weapons and the speed of reaction had changed to make the price of failure near-instantly and globally catastrophic.
Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/sændz/; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s.
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10 de ago. de 2000 · Duncan Sandys, who in 1974 was given a peerage, appeared to be in the clear - a fact confirmed by a Harley Street doctor who concluded his pubic hair did not correspond with that in the ...
26 de ago. de 2022 · Anglo-Malayan defence agreement. On 20 August 1957, Duncan Sandys, the British Minister of Defence, while in Canberra at the start of a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and South East Asia, discovered the perils of the unscripted news conference. Sandys had hoped to use the tour to explain some of the recent changes to British defence ...
