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10 de nov. de 2017 · On a personal level Sandys was largely a private man and had a reputation for being ‘unclubable’ if charming to women. Footnote 1 An only child, he was born in 1908 to George John Sandys , Conservative MP for Wells and soldier in both the Boer War and World War I, and Mildred (née Cameron), the daughter of a New Zealander, remembered by Sandys’ second wife as a ‘tough’ type.
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 ...
Date: 1961 From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988] Reference: B-137-443 Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister Keith Holyoake with the Minister of Overseas Trade John Marshall, who is commenting to Holyoake as the British politician Duncan Sandys walks into the office in a Tyrolean outfit.
The 2019 3D Journeys "Magic of Morocco" lecture series presents Duncan Sandys, the great grandson of Winston Churchill. His topic: "Churchill and Morocco."
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Duncan Sandys took up his appointment on 13 January 1957 having been specifically instructed to secure ‘a substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower’ in the armed forces, and having been granted much more formidable powers than any previous Minister of Defence. Eleven weeks of furious activity followed during which many toes were ...
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 ...
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 ...
