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Duncan Sandys. Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys (gesprochen „sands“) CH PC (* 24. Januar 1908; † 26. November 1987) war ein britischer Diplomat und Politiker der Conservative Party. Er diente in einer Zeit der Entkolonialisierung als Minister in aufeinanderfolgenden konservativen Regierungen. Er setzte sich stark für die ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...