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Vor 3 Tagen · His Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, considered that nuclear weapons reduced Britain's dependence on the United States. The 1956 Suez Crisis demonstrated that Britain was no longer a great power, [149] but increased the value to Britain of an independent nuclear deterrent that would give it greater influence with the US and USSR ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In 1957, the minister of defence, Duncan Sandys, published a white paper which set out major restructuring of the UK’s defence policy and capabilities. One element of this set of changes was that National Service would come to an end; it was, said Sandys, “extremely wasteful in its use of manpower”. Consequently, those born on ...
Vor einem Tag · On November 22, Averall Harriman, the American Under-Secretary of State, and Duncan Sandys, the British Commonwealth Secretary, visited the two capitals of the subcontinent to persuade the enemy brothers that it was time to bury the hatchet and find a solution to their fifteen-year-old dispute. Harriman and Sandys eventually signed a joint communiqué and asked the two countries to resume ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Returning to Britain he now worked for the Osteopathic Association Clinic in Dorset Square London where he treated the American Ambassador Harriman and then Winston Churchill's son-in-law Duncan Sandys, a man that would introduce him to Nancy Astor’s son the Honourable Lord William Astor.
Vor einem Tag · He subsequently invested in London-based conglomerate Lonrho, eventually owning 340 shares, and reportedly caused the company's chairman Lord Duncan-Sandys "discomfort" by quizzing him at an annual general meeting on the low dividends offered to shareholders.
Vor 2 Tagen · Duncan Sandys: Succeeded by: Reginald Maudling: Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal; In office 8 March 1976 – 18 May 1978 Life peerage: Member of Parliament for Wirral; In office 5 July 1945 – 11 March 1976: Preceded by: Alan Crosland Graham: Succeeded by: David Hunt: Personal details; Born
Vor 2 Tagen · On November 22, Averall Harriman, the American Under-Secretary of State, and Duncan Sandys, the British Commonwealth Secretary, visited the two capitals of the subcontinent to persuade the enemy brothers that it was time to bury the hatchet and find a solution to their fifteen-year-old dispute. Harriman and Sandys eventually signed a joint communiqué and asked the two countries to resume ...
