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Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/ s æ n d z /; 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
- 1937–1946
- Conservative
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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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.
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 ...
- James Robert Brennan
- 2020
10 de nov. de 2017 · Duncan Sandys and the Informal Politics of Britain’s Late Decolonisation. Peter Brooke. Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series ( (CIPCSS)) 334 Accesses. Abstract. Sandys has yet to be the subject of a biography. This chapter presents an overview of his career.
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.
