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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 ...
25 de fev. 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 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.
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.
In 1935 Duncan-Sandys was elected as a Conservative MP and married Diana Bailey, eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. During World War II he saw active service until 1941 when he was involved in a serious car crash. He resumed his political career in the Coalition Government, amidst some claims of nepotism.
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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20 de out. de 2016 · Abstract. 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 1957 White Paper on Defence, which set out a radical vison for the ...
