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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.
- James Robert Brennan
- 2020
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.
- Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, Cambridgeshire
- 01223 336087
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Duncan Sandys (born Jan. 24, 1908, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1987, London) was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
The novelties lay with the decisions to look to missiles as the main instruments of British air power in the future, to reduce the strength of British ground and air forces with NATO and to end National Service. Even here Sandys's predecessors had been moving towards the same con clusions.
- C. J. Bartlett
- 1972
Nov 8, 2017 · 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...
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 ...
