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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 ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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.
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 the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. Sandys, born 24 January 1908 Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset, was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918 ...
