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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
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.
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...
5 de ago. de 2019 · Duncan Sandys was the last of Harold Macmillan’s four Colonial Secretaries who oversaw the dismantling of Britain’s postwar empire and also the last to receive serious biographical study. Philip Murphy’s biography of Alan Lennox-Boyd (1955–9) portrays a Colonial Secretary conservative by disposition but deferential to the ...
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)) 337 Accesses. Abstract. Sandys has yet to be the subject of a biography. This chapter presents an overview of his career.
25 de fev. de 2013 · Read this article. Duncan Sandys' tenure at the Ministry of Defence has usually been seen as one of the major turning points in post-war British defence policy. The consensus is that Sandys was a prime mover in bringing about a contraction of Britain's military capabilities in an era when economic constraints, coupled with the need ...
20 de out. de 2016 · Duncan Sandys was one of the most significant British politicians of the 1950s, serving in successive Conservative administrations from 1951 to 1964, and holding a number of key posts. Most significantly, he was Minister of Defence at the time of the controversial...
