W. G. G. Duncan Smith - Post War

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In 1952 Duncan Smith received a second bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Malayan Emergency.

His wife, Pamela Summers(whom he married in 1946) was a ballerina who was born in Nanking, China where her father was a commissioner in the Chinese Postal Service. Her maternal grandmother was Ellen Oshey Matsumuro, a Japanese woman whose father was a Japanese artist. Their son Iain Duncan Smith is now a British politician, and was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to November 2003.

His son Iain Duncan Smith revealed in a BBC radio interview in 2001 that, while living in America in the 1950s, his father was "propositioned" by American actress Marilyn Monroe.

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