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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 independence and the dismantling of the Central African ...
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.
28 de mar. de 2024 · 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.
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 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 ...
The 1957 White Paper on Defence (Cmnd. 124) was a British white paper issued in March 1957 setting forth the perceived future of the British military. [1] It had profound effects on all aspects of the defence industry but probably the most affected was the British aircraft industry. Duncan Sandys, the recently appointed Minister of Defence ...
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).
