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Duncan Sandys était un pur produit de l’Establishment britannique : fils d'un député conservateur, élevé à Eton, il poursuit ses études au Magdalen College de l'université d'Oxford et devint diplomate, notamment à Berlin. À ce poste, il mit en garde le Foreign Office contre le réarmement clandestin allemand ; il fut rappelé à Londres pour cela.
The 2019 3D Journeys "Magic of Morocco" lecture series presents Duncan Sandys, the great grandson of Winston Churchill. His topic: "Churchill and Morocco."
- 23 min
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- LaGrange College
17 set 2009 · Duncan Sandys formed the British Movement to propagate a progressive form of constitutional Conservatism, which was meant to ‘reform’ the National government and neutralise Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF). The ambiguous nature of its propaganda was meant to appeal to would-be fascists, as well as national-minded Conservatives.
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 a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II.
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.
Duncan Sandys took up his appointment on 13 January 1957 having been specifically instructed to secure ‘a substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower’ in the armed forces, and having been granted much more formidable powers than any previous...
Duncan Edwin Sandys of Baron Duncan-Sandys (Londen, 24 januari 1908 - 26 november 1987) was een Brits parlementslid en minister voor de Conservative Party.
