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| | Encyclopedia: Margaret, Duchess of Argyll |
 | | It was speculated that the "headless man" was Duncan Sandys, the minister of defence, who offered to resign from the cabinet. | | | Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys1 (January 24, 1908-November 26, 1987) was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments. | | | Jump to: navigation, search The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 â& 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Margaret,-Duchess-of-Argyll
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| | Janus: The Papers of Lord Duncan-Sandys |
| | Sandys, Duncan Edwin Duncan-, 1908-1987, Baron Duncan-Sandys, politician | | | Sandys, Duncan Edwin Duncan - (1908-1987) Baron Duncan-Sandys, politician | | | Additional information was obtained from Lord Duncan Sandys' entry in "Who Was Who, 1897 - 1996" (AandC Black) and from the catalogue originally produced in 1978. |
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http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/DSND
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| | When Hague resigned following the party's disastrous performance in the general election of June 7, 2001, Duncan Smith stood for the party leadership (to be decided for the first time by all party members), promising that he would "never" support the entry of Britain into the EU's single currency. | | | The Conservatives lost power in those elections, and the new party leader, William Hague, appointed Duncan Smith to his shadow cabinet as official spokesman on social security. | | | Of five candidates he was alone in never having served before as a government minister. |
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| | 161. ATTEMPTS TO REACH A POLITICAL SOLUTION IN 1963 |
| | On his arrival, the Colonial Secretary, Duncan Sandys, told him that Burnham, after he returned to Guyana from New York and Washington, had stated that he never agreed to the visit of a Commonwealth Mission to Guyana. | | | The deteriorating political situation forced the Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys to visit Guyana for meetings with the political leaders. | | | Jagan then departed for London to attend the constitutional conference which was due to open on 22 November. |
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http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter161.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian 'Headless men' in sex scandal finally named |
| | The man in the more notorious shot is unveiled as Duncan Sandys, then a cabinet minister, and his masturbating rival as Douglas Fairbanks Jr, the Hollywood legend who dallied with Marlene Dietrich and married Joan Crawford. | | | The Argyll case, heard in March 1963 - the same month John Profumo lied to the Commons about his relationship Christine Keeler - was the longest and most sensational divorce to occur in Britain. | | | This formed part of his inquiry into security risks following the resignation of the then secretary of state for war, John Profumo. |
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http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,352561,00.html
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| | Dáil Éireann - Volume 314 - 08 May, 1979 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Wood Quay Site. |
| | Lenihan: Lord Duncan Sandys made his view known before the Supreme Court decision and has not made it known since the Supreme Court decision. | | | Collins: Is the Minister satisfied that the request of the General Rapporteur, Lord Duncan Sandys, was valid and that the Government are considering acceding to the request? | | | No communication has been sent from that or any other source since the Supreme Court decision. |
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http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0314/D.0314.197905080021.html
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| | Duncan Sandys |
| | Duncan Sandys (1908-1987) was a British politician, a minister in successive Conservative governments. | | | He entered the diplomatic service in 1930, and became MP for Norwood, a district of London in 1935. | | | Sandys was an old-school Tory, educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. |
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http://www.eurofreehost.com/du/Duncan_Sandys.html
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| | Majid's Pages - Suvadives Statements, society and culture |
| | On the British side were Duncan Sandys Secretary of State (Minister) for Commonwealth Relations, Sir Michael Walker British High Commissioner in Colombo and Humphrey Arthington-Davey British Representative in Male. | | | Statement by Mr Duncan Sandys, British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | | | Press Release issued in Addu Atoll by the Honourable Mr Duncan Sandys, M.P., Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations |
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| | Historic Houses In Scotland |
| | Everton had thrown on England's Beattie and Scotland's Duncan Ferguson... |
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| | Sands Families 1379 - 2000 |
| | 8 [8] SANDYS, Sir Edwin [8], Kt, M.A., B.C.L., statesman b: 09 | | | + +[73] SANDYS, Edwin b: ~1561 Latimer, BKM, ENG #: SAND1538 | | | 7 [6] SANDYS, Archbishop Edwin [7], M.A., D.D. b: 1519 Hawkshead, |
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/SANDS.shtml
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- -- Apr. 18, 1960 |
| | By Duncan Sandys, 52, Britain's Aviation Minister: Diana Churchill Sandys, 50, Sir Winston's eldest daughter; after 25 years of marriage, three children; in London. |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,874069,00.html
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| | The Racialists of Guiana |
| | After the split in the People's Progressive Party, the British held new elections under an altered Constitution and on the basis of constituencies which were rigged to ensure defeat of the People's Progressive Party. | | | On 31 October 1963, the Secretary of State for Commonwealth and Colonial Affairs Duncan Sandys, said to the reconvened British Guiana Independence Conference: | | | In 1927, the British government wanted to alter the constitution of British Guiana. |
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| | Churchill's great-grandson welcomes Iraq news LJWorld.com |
| | Sandys said the same could not be said for Prime Minster Tony Blair. | | | When Blair "came into office, he said his top three priorities would be education, education and education," Sandys said. | | | Sandys, 30, told the Journal-World he had "tremendous admiration" for the former senator and his struggle to overcome his war injuries. |
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http://www.ljworld.com/section/kudole/story/139658
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Galbraith Celebrates Name-Dropping |
| | A delegation that went to Nehru soon after the cease-fire consisted of Duncan Sandys (Churchill’s formidably arrogant son-in-law, Galbraith notes) and Lord Louis Mountbatten. | | | When Nehru died on May 27, 1964, Galbraith notes the state department dispatched a delegation of mourners that included those who, urging arms to the subcontinent, had contributed most to his despair. | | | I will not negotiate with Duncan Sandys, because he is a cad." |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/may/24us1.htm
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| | Department of Information |
| | Further discussions were held in February 1964 and in March 1964 Duncan Sandys and Borg Olivier issued a Joint Statement declaring that Borg Oliver was going to present the draft constitution before the National Assembly and after its approval, it would be presented to the Maltese electorate for a referendum. | | | These were approved and a referendum was held in May when 129,649 or 82.6% of the electorate voted. | | | The Maltese Government was asking for a monarchical state with a Governor General representing the Queen. |
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http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/islands/periods/malta11.asp
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| | Duncan Sandys -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Sports analysts said that U.S. basketball player Tim Duncan could have been the number-one National Basketball Association (NBA) draft pick in 1995 if he had made himself available right after his sophomore year of college. | | | also called (from 1974) Duncan Edwin Duncan-sandys, Baron Duncan-sandys British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. | | | The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001230
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| | Porton Down Continued Nerve Gas Testing on Human Guinea Pigs Even After Ban |
| | The hearing was told that on May 7 1953, the day after Mr Maddison's death, Duncan Sandys, the minister responsible for Porton Down, sent a secret memo to then prime minister Winston Churchill. | | | The following day, a senior Whitehall official informed Porton Down of the ban, "which will remain in force until fresh instructions are given" by a minister. | | | Mr Sandys wrote: "Pending the results of our own court of inquiry, I have given instructions that further tests on human beings with nerve gas should be temporarily suspended." |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/270804nervegastesting.htm
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| | Alport papers |
| | File 2 Copies of despatches to Mr Duncan Sandys (Secretary of State for C.R.) | | | File I Minutes to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr Duncan Sandys) | | | 2.3.62 Despatch no. 3 to Mr Duncan Sandys re: Annual Federal Congress of the United Federal Party |
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http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/Archives/alport.htm
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| | thePeerage.com - Person Page 10625 |
| | Alexander Winston Duncan Perkins was born in 1986. | | | Michael Kennedy married Celia Mary Sandys, daughter of Rt. | | | She and Michael Kennedy were divorced in 1970. |
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| | Duncan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Duncan, after a British admiral, Adam Duncan. | | | Duncan is the name of a number of places in the United States and Canada: | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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| | Search Results for Duncan - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | king of Scotland (1093–94), son of Malcolm III and grandson of Duncan I. Sandys, Duncan (Edwin) | | | Expand your search on Duncan with these databases: | | | American sociologist whose study of the black population of Chicago (1957) demonstrated early in his career the validity of human ecology as an extension of the discipline of sociology. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Duncan&submit=Find&source=MWTAB
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| | US Declassifed Documents (1964-1968) |
| | /2/ At a Constitutional Conference in London in October 1963, the major British Guiana party leaders asked British Colonial Secretary Sandys to devise a constitution, "since they were unable to agree among themselves." Sandys then decreed a new registration and general election under proportional representation for a single house legislature. | | | Proposed Reply to Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys’ Letter on British Guiana | | | Duncan Sandys has written to you (Tab B) stating that he believes order and security in British Guiana can only be restored through an all party coalition government. |
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| | spiked-life Article Don't protect the Green Belt - build on it |
| | 'We have a clear duty to do all we can to prevent the further unrestricted sprawl of the great cities', said minister Duncan Sandys (who was later denounced by Edward Hearth as the 'unacceptable face of capitalism') (3). | | | The first Green Belt in modern times was created by the London and Home Counties Green Belt Act of 1938. | | | That might sound like anathema to today's radicals, but they have forgotten that the abolition of the division between town and country was the original goal of radicals from Frederick Engels to Leon Trotsky. |
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| | 1965 war: The Chinese bluff |
| | The first one was the visit to India of US Assistant Secretary of State Averell Harriman and British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations Duncan Sandys on November 22, 1962. | | | This was the day China declared a unilateral ceasefire in the war with India. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/30war.htm?q=tp
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| | 160. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE IN 1962 |
| | At the constitutional conference in London chaired by Duncan Sandys, the new Colonial Secretary, Dr. Jagan called on the British Government to grant early independence noting that Trinidad and Jamaica, whose political advancement was at the same level as that of Guyana, had already achieved independent status. | | | With no agreement in sight, the Colonial Secretary, Duncan Sandys, suggested arbitration by the British Government. | | | At the end of the conference, Sandys asked the parties to carry out further consultations in Guyana, and he announced that if the political situation worsened in Guyana, the British Government would consider "imposing a settlement". |
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http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter160.html
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| | ZA@Play - Books: Churchill’s first war adventure 24/08/99 |
| | Sandys, daughter of Churchill’s eldest daughter Diana and former British cabinet minister Lord Duncan Sandys, is tall, rangy and casually elegant. | | | Winston Churchill during the Boer War (top) and his granddaughter, Celia Sandys | | | Even had he never gone into politics, his intellect combined with his superb writing talent would have brought him enduring fame. |
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http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/books/9908/990824-churchill.html
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| | Early Articles 2 |
| | Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on his departure after a four-day visit, proclaimed that the greatest problem in British Guiana was racial conflict. | | | Sandys and others must note is that the spread of the disorders to the countryside and the racial conflict which ensued was due principally to the fact that Georgetown, predominantly Negro, was not pacified and Indians who were publicly battered and bludgeoned lost faith in the law-enforcing agencies and retaliated. | | | This was clearly voiced by the Opposition Press during the strike. |
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| | Press Release - ETV |
| | Born in London in 1938, she is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, the child of Churchill’s daughter Diana and Lord Duncan Sandys, a British Cabinet Minister. | | | Sandys has been honored with the M.B.E. by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Westminster College, rang the peace bell at the United Nations and received the UN Society of Writers and Artists Award for Excellence. | | | Her move to New York in the early ‘70s, and subsequent marriage to architect Richard Kaplan, ushered in a whole new era of creativity as she branched out into the medium of sculpture. |
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| | Duncan J. Watts - encyclopedia article about Duncan J. Watts. |
| | Duncan Gordon Boyes V.C. Duncan Gordon Boyes, V.C. Duncan Grant | | | Duncan J. Watts is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, head of the CDG Collective Dynamics Group and author of the book (Norton, 2003). | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Duncan%20J.%20Watts
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| | UN Chronicle: Proudly she stands: 'Woman Free.' - statue by Edwina Sandys |
| | She is the eldest child of Diana Churchill and Lord Duncan Sandys, a former British cabinet minister. | | | Sandys lives in the United States and says she feels as much at home there as in her native England. | | | The work, created by British sculptor Edwina Sandys, started as a simple doodle on a paper napkin in the Russian Tea Room in New York City. |
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| | Story Of 1930s Intelligence Trip To Russia Uncovered In Wiltshire - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ... |
| | Sandys became an MP in 1935 and was later a member of Churchill& wartime cabinet, eventually becoming Lord Duncan-Sandys. | | | Both Fuller and Sandys were closely tied to the Conservative Party and the men’s observations of Stalin’s regime would have been a useful source of intelligence for the British government. | | | Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Fuller and Duncan Sandys travelled to communist Russia in 1931 as tourists, but were in reality on a fact-finding mission for the Conservative government of the day. |
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| | Later that year she married Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys, on 16 September. | | | On 12 December 1932 she married Sir John Milner Bailey, but the marriage was unsuccessful and they divorced in 1935. | | | After having three children, that marriage also proved a failure and they were divorced in 1960. |
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| | BBC NEWS England Wiltshire Chronicle reveals secret mission |
| | Lt Col Fuller, who came from Jaggards, near Corsham, and his friend Duncan Sandys were travelling as tourists. | | | Duncan Sandys served in Churchill's wartime cabinet and later become Lord Duncan-Sandys. | | | Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Fuller's journal was found at the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office in Trowbridge. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4274160.stm
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| | University of Miami |
| | The lecture is presented in cooperation with the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. | | | The Honrable Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, will discuss "Churchill's First 25 Years." Celia Sandys' mother was Churchill's eldest daughter, Diana, and her father, Lord Duncan-Sandys, the former cabinet minister and member of his father-in-law's wartime government. | | | Sandys will be available to sign your book. Refreshments will be served. |
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http://www.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Announce_Template/1,1777,4058,00.html
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| | Highland Archives:Dounreay - The Cold War Connection |
| | Sir David Robertson wrote to Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply, on an almost daily basis, reminding the Minister that an announcement confirming the selection of Dounreay as chosen site for the pioneering fast breeder reactor project, was long overdue. | | | David Robertson’s patriotism was probably beyond question, but for Duncan Sandys to tell the Member for Caithness and Sutherland everything he himself knew about the negotiations over Dounreay’s future would have been contrary to accepted Government practice. | | | The answer was simple – Duncan Sandys could not confirm what he knew to be still in doubt. |
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http://www.internet-promotions.co.uk/archives/dounreay/coldwar2.htm
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| | British Rockets and Satellite Launchers. |
| | Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Aviation after Sandys, toured Australia and Canada in September and October 1960 trying to interest them in Black Prince, but met with little response, despite the emphasis on communications satellites, which had obvious relevance to the farflung White Commonwealth. | | | This was the death blow for the project. | | | But it was an argument that Sandys lost, and the decision was taken to order Skybolt from America, with its planned thousand mile range, for the V bombers. |
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http://members.aol.com/nicholashl/ukspace/bs/bs_weapon.htm
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| | The V1 |
| | Churchill took on board the memo and appointed Sandys to lead investigations. | | | More establishments had been identified in northern France. | | | Sandys soon provided Churchill with reports that Germany had been carrying experiments with heavy rockets, jet-propelled planes and airborne rocket torpedoes at Peenemünde on the German Baltic coast. |
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| | Documentary identifies actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as lover of duchess |
| | Fairbanks headed the list of 88 possible lovers submitted to the court by her husband. | | | Lord Duncan Sandys, then Britain's defense secretary, was also named as a possible paramour. | | | Sandys, who was also Sir Winston Churchill's son-in-law, offered to resign during a cabinet meeting, Channel 4 said. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2000/08/16/international2114EDT0793.DTL&nl=fix
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| | House of Commons Hansard Debates for 25 Jan 1989 |
| | All the attempts of Hore-Belisha, the Minister for War at the time, to prevent the matter from being brought into the public domain injured nobody but himself. | | | Although the claim did not get to a court of law, in the end the matter subsided after it had gone to the Committee of Privileges and had been generally discussed here. | | | I should like an absolutely clear statement from the Minister, who is nodding his head, that just as the Sandys case could be aired in 1938, so it could be under this legislation. |
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http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-01-25/Debate-3.html
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| | dance sandys shoes wear |
| | Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys, former Governor Sir Ralph Grey... | | | July 23, 2003 Duncan Sandys knew something big had happened... | | | 07 SANDYS ANTIQUES has a nice selection of Glassware, Antique (Civil War) 1840-1890... |
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| | People and organizations involved: Harold Macmillan, David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, David Ormsby Gore, McGeorge Bundy, Quintin McGarel Hogg, Lord Hailsham, Harold Anthony Cacciae, William R Tyler, David Dean Rusk, Duncan Sandys, Peter Thorneycroft, Lord Hood, Philip de Zulueta, John F. Kennedy, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home | | | Sandys said he thought the best solution was that of a Burnham-D'Aguiar government to which the UK would grant independence.” [Sources: Paper Prepared in the Department of State] | | | US and British officials meet and discuss the Guyana government of the left-leaning Cheddi Jagan. |
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| | George John Sandys Capt. |
| | Name: George John Sandys Capt. Born: Married: Died: | | | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | If you want to know what this is all about - click here, or you can click here for help. |
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| | Duncan Sandys, MP, Minister of Defence and General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe | | | BANQUET TO CELEBRATE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY |
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| | Duncan Sandys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sandys continued as a minister at the Commonwealth Relations Office, later combining it with the Colonies Office, until the Conservative government fell from power in 1964. | | | Sandys was the son of a Conservative MP and was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. | | | Sandys was responsible for establishing the European Movement in Britain in 1947 and served as a member of the European Consultative Assembly in 1950 to 1951. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Sandys
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| | European Movement - History |
| | Duncan Sandys was elected President and Léon Blum, Winston Churchill, Alcide De Gasperi and Paul-Henri Spaak were elected as Honorary Presidents. | | | The UEM acted as a platform for the co-ordination of organisations created in the wake of WWII. | | | The origins of the European Movement date back to July 1947, at a time when the cause of a United Europe was being championed by notables such as Winston Churchill and Duncan Sandys in the form of the Anglo-French United European Movement. |
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| | UK Gay News - City of Westminster Ban on Rainbow Flags Condemned as ‘Incompetent Bigotry’ |
| | Because of the 2-2 voting tie, Sandys, the committee chair, excercised his cast vote to reject the application. | | | His proposal that the flag be granted permission was rejected on the casting vote of the Chair of the Committee, Cllr Duncan Sandys. | | | Last year, enforcement action was taken by the Westminster Council to remove “unauthorized rainbow flag and flagpole” at the Admiral Duncan pub in nearby Old Compton Street, and at 1-7 Brewer Street. |
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http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005may/2201.htm
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| | Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER) |
| | The sweeping new powers over the Services which Macmillan gave to Duncan Sandys, significantly beyond those held by previous Defence Ministers, illustrated the new government's determination to bring things to a head and make important changes. | | | Duncan Sandys during his visit a few weeks ago to Ottawa. | | | The timing of the decision to undertake major defence reductions was determined very largely by economic considerations, and a realization, which came to a head after the Suez fiasco, that Britain had for some years been carrying commitments beyond her resources. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/dcer/details-en.asp?intRefid=3335
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| | Although Lonrho had been managed by Tiny Rowland since 1961, the chairman was Duncan Sandys (Lord Duncan Duncan-Sandys), who had not only been married to Winston Churchill's daughter, before she left him and later committed suicide, but also served as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies. | | | Bludhorn was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1926 and arrived in the U.S. in 1942. | | | 378) that one of the "original founders" of Gulf + Western was John Duncan of Houston, whose brother, Charles Duncan, was chairman of Rice University Board of Trustees for many years, as well as being in Jimmy Carter's Cabinet. |
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http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lm4,30,02,harvardtoenronpt4.htm
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