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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. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II. (en) Edwin Duncan Sandys, baron ...
Abstract. 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 ...
Leben. Sandy Duncan (1971) Sandy Duncan hatte 1971 bei CBS 13 Folgen lang die Haupt- und Titelrolle der Comedyserie Viel Lärm um Sandy inne. Ein Jahr später hatte sie mit The Sandy Duncan Show ihre eigene Sitcom. Nach einer Staffel mit 13 Folgen wurde sie jedoch wieder eingestellt. Von 1987 bis 1991 war sie in Der Hogan-Clan als Sandy Hogan ...
Politician; Secretary of State for the Colonies 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. He lost his seat in the 1945 ...
Duncan Sandys, 50, britischer Verteidigungsminister und Schwiegersohn Sir Winston Churchills, wird auf der Titelseite der Labour-Wochenzeitung »Tribune« in großer Aufmachung unter der ...
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 ...
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 ...
