Word: duncan
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Ever since Defense Minister Duncan Sandys announced his radical decision last April to cut Britain's army almost in half, London's bleak, grey War Office has gone almost on a wartime footing of late nights and worried councils, to determine which of the nation's famed regiments should be spared and which must go.Last week 46-year-old War Secretary John Hare faced newsmen and a battery of television lights to break the news. In less than an hour, Hare sounded the Last Post for 51 major army units and many more smaller units...
...British have been taking a hard, careful look at their defenses in the Middle East. Three months ago able Defense Minister Duncan Sandys, 49, went off on a personal fact-finding tour to determine what should be done. After the failure of last fall's invasion of Egypt, he concluded, Britain no longer has a specific individual role to play in the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean (Friend Iraq would be defended by the Baghdad Pact as a whole). "The emphasis has shifted south of the Suez Canal to the Arabian peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian...
...Bermuda meeting with President Eisenhower, Macmillan got Britain back on speaking terms with the U.S., while simultaneously making clear that if Britain accepted the role of junior partner, it was a junior partner with a mind of its own. The bold new defense policy outlined by Defense Minister Duncan Sandys was realistically geared to Britain's economic capabilities and imaginatively adjusted to 20th century weapons and technology. It had the added political merit of promising to end conscription in 1960, the year the Tories must face the voters in a general election...
...fact. He included in his Cabinet three other divorced men: Sir Walter Monckton, Secretary for Scotland James Stuart, and President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft. When Harold Macmillan succeeded Eden, he appointed another divorced man to the Cabinet, Minister of Education Lord Hailsham. Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys recently separated legally from Winston Churchill's eldest daughter Diana...
This basic decision was reached two years ago, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Harold Macmillan was his Minister of Defense. When Macmillan himself became Prime Minister last January, he gave the job of carrying out the decision to Duncan Sandys (Churchill's son-in-law, though he and Diana recently separated). The trouble was that Britain's missiles program, like its aircraft design, was lagging badly. Ten weeks ago, Sandys (pronounced Sands) took hat in hand, went off to Washington to ask for U.S. missiles. His success was signed and sealed at Bermuda...