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26. Aug. 2022 · Anglo-Malayan defence agreement. On 20 August 1957, Duncan Sandys, the British Minister of Defence, while in Canberra at the start of a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and South East Asia, discovered the perils of the unscripted news conference. Sandys had hoped to use the tour to explain some of the recent changes to British defence ...
Dieses Subkomitee war im September 1943 unter der Leitung von Duncan Sandys außerhalb des JIC gegründet worden. Nach dem Übergang in die neue Organisationsform trug es für kurze Zeit den Namen Bodyline, dann bald aber Crossbow, woraus schließlich auch der Name der zugehörigen militärischen Operation wurde. Mit der Übertragung ging eine ...
Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC 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 europäische Integration im heutigen Sinn ein und gilt daher bis heute als „europäischer“ Politiker. Er war der Schwiegersohn von Sir ...
5. Dez. 2008 · Long understood as the key document in Britain's Cold War history, the Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 nevertheless has a largely forgotten context: home defence. This article argues that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and the reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded. It argues ...
20. Okt. 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 ...
Letter from Duncan Sandys to Prime Minister Anthony Eden in reply to the Prime Minister’s minute about possible military action after Nasser’s decision to the nationalise of the Suez Canal. Duncan Sandys (pronounced Sands) was first elected to the House of Commons in 1935. He returned to the House of Commons when the Conservatives regained ...
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 ...
