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Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister Keith Holyoake with the Minister of Overseas Trade John Marshall, who is commenting to Holyoake as the British politician Duncan Sandys walks into the office in a Tyrolean outfit. This refers to the fact that Sandys' efforts to soften New Zealand's anti-Common Market stance had met with resistance, and ...
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 ...
May 1, 2022 · Förnamn Edwin Mellannamn Duncan Efternamn Sandys Dödsdatum 26 november 1987 27 november 1987. "Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, [1] CH PC (24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was for a quarter century the son-in-law of Sir ...
Lord Duncan-Sandys was born 24 January 1908, the only son of Captain George Sandys, formerly MP for Wells, and Mildred. He married Diana Spencer-Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, in 1935 and they divorced in 1960 (she died 1963). They had one son Julian and two daughters. His second marriage was in 1962 to Marie-Claire, formerly ...
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 the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. Sandys, born 24 January 1908 Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset, was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918 ...
Descendants of Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945 and 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955, was the eldest son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough . In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and ...
Oct 20, 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 ...
