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10 de nov. de 2017 · Sandys’ involvement with decolonisation, at times highly interventionist, was most remarkable for its continuity once he had left office in 1964, the former minister waging a series of campaigns on colonial and Commonwealth issues from the backbenches in the later 1960s. These form the subject of the remaining chapters of this book.
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. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II. (en) Edwin Duncan Sandys, baron ...
5 de ago. de 2019 · By the time Duncan Sandys (1962–64) was appointed Colonial Secretary, only a handful of difficult cases remained—Kenya, the Central African Federation, and Southern Arabia most prominently. An effective bureaucratic brawler and hatchet man, Sandys continued the government’s frenetic pace of decolonization, overseeing Kenya’s independence and the dismantling of the Central African ...
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).
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.
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
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 ...
