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Nov 27, 1987 · Lord Duncan-Sandys, the longtime British politician and diplomat who negotiated the independence of nearly a dozen British colonies and territories in the 1960's, died yesterday at his home in...
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, 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.
Nov 10, 2017 · Sandys has yet to be the subject of a biography. This chapter presents an overview of his career. Particular attention is given to Sandys’ tenure at the Commonwealth Relations and Colonial Offices, from 1960 to 1964. Sandys had an ambiguous attitude towards the...
Feb 25, 2013 · Read this article. Duncan Sandys' tenure at the Ministry of Defence has usually been seen as one of the major turning points in post-war British defence policy. The consensus is that Sandys was a prime mover in bringing about a contraction of Britain's military capabilities in an era when economic constraints, coupled with the need for Britain ...
Aug 5, 2019 · Duncan Sandys was the last of Harold Macmillan’s four Colonial Secretaries who oversaw the dismantling of Britain’s postwar empire and also the last to receive serious biographical study. Philip Murphy’s biography of Alan Lennox-Boyd (1955–9) portrays a Colonial Secretary conservative by disposition but deferential to the political ...
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.
Scope and Contents. The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs.
