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Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys (gesprochen „sands“) CH PC (* 24. Januar 1908; † 26. November 1987) war ein britischer Diplomat und Politiker der Conservative Party. Er diente in einer Zeit der Entkolonialisierung als Minister in aufeinanderfolgenden konservativen Regierungen.
Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/ s æ n d z /; 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
- 1937–1946
- Conservative
Duncan Sandys was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935. He became a close ally of his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
10. Nov. 2017 · During his time at the Colonial Office from 1962 to 1964 Sandys oversaw the independence of ten colonial dependencies at a speed that was almost inconceivable prior to Macmillan and Macleod ’s advancement of African decolonisation from 1959.
- Peter Brooke
- 2018
22. Apr. 2022 · People speculated that the “headless man” was wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill’s son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, as it was reported that only the Minister of Defense had access to a Polaroid ...
- Eloise Barry
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.
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 ...
