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The 1957 White Paper on Defence (Cmnd. 124) was a British white paper issued in March 1957 setting forth the perceived future of the British military. [1] It had profound effects on all aspects of the defence industry but probably the most affected was the British aircraft industry. Duncan Sandys, the recently appointed Minister of Defence ...
26 de ago. de 2022 · Anglo-Malayan defence agreement. On 20 August 1957, Duncan Sandys, the British Minister of Defence, while in Canberra at the start of a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and South East Asia, discovered the perils of the unscripted news conference. Sandys had hoped to use the tour to explain some of the recent changes to British defence ...
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 Minister of Defence. Eleven weeks of furious activity followed during which many toes were ...
Duncan 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
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With Duncan Sandys she had three children: The Honourable Julian Sandys (19 September 1936 – 15 August 1997). He married Elisabeth Martin in 1970. They had four children: Lucy Diana Sandys (born 1971); she married David Pite in 2007. They have two children. Duncan John Winston Sandys (b. 1973); he married Mary Brown C. Brewer and divorced in ...
In 1957 the new Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, sought to mould British defence policy and force structure to reflect the exigencies of war in the thermonuclear age. His termination of national service meant that even relatively, the importance of the deterrent would increase.
