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University, Colby College, Yale University, University of Windsor, Hamilton College, Fordham University, Manhattan College, University of Michigan, Delhi University, University of Leeds, Louvain University, University of Alberta, Boston University, Rutgers University, University of Dublin (Trinity College), Laval University, Columbia University, the University of the Philippines Diliman, and Syracuse University. He also received the Doctor of Divinity from The First Universal Church; Doctor of International Law from Florida International University; Doctor of Laws from University of Hartford; Doctor of Civil Laws degree, honoris causa from Colgate University; Doctor of Humane Letters from Duke University.

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that the U.S. should make non-invasion guarantees in exchange for missile withdrawal from the Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Khrushchev welcomed the proposal, which formed the basis of further negotiations. Khrushchev further agreed to suspend missile shipments while the negotiations were ongoing. However, on 27 October 1962, a U-2 plane was shot down over Cuba, deepening the crisis. Kennedy was under intense pressure to invade from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the

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In December 2013, in an effort spearheaded by his daughter Aye Aye Thant and his grandson Thant Myint-U, Thant's house in Yangon was being converted into a museum which would feature his photos, works and personal belongings. In October 2013, the building of an U Thant library near his Pantanaw house

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Thant was generally reluctant to receive prizes and honors due to his own humility as well as publicity associated with them. He declined Burma's second highest honor awarded to him by U Nu's government in 1961. When he was informed that the 1965 Nobel Prize would instead go to UNICEF due to Chairman

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when the Security Council assured him that he would not be a "glorified clerk." On 2 December 1966, the General Assembly re-appointed Thant to a term ending on 31 December 1971, on the unanimous recommendation of the Security Council. During his second term, he oversaw the entry into the UN of dozens

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For his role in defusing the Cuban crisis and other peacekeeping efforts, the Norwegian Permanent Representative of the United Nations informed Thant that he would be awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize. He humbly replied, "Is not the Secretary-General merely doing his job when he works for peace?" On

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that intense animosity between Thant and Ne Win went back only to 1969, when Ne Win believed Thant was conniving with Nu after Nu denounced Ne Win at a press corps meeting at the UN headquarters. Ne Win told his men to consider Thant as an enemy of the state, despite Thant denouncing Nu's action as

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After his retirement, Thant was appointed a senior fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. He spent the last years of his life writing and advocating the development of a true global community and other general themes he had tried to promote while he was secretary-general.

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Po Hnit had collected a personal library of various American and British books and cultivated a reading habit among his children. As a result, Thant became an avid reader and his school friends nicknamed him "The Philosopher". Apart from reading, he enjoyed various sports including hiking, swimming

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In Israel, his abrupt unilateral withdrawal of UNEF without any diplomatic process or wider consultation was regarded as a violation of United Nations assurances and commitments given to Israel in 1957, on the basis of which Israel had withdrawn from Sinai and Gaza at that time, and it "thereafter

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made several favorable references to Thant in letters to U.S. president John F. Kennedy. In November 1962, the General Assembly voted unanimously to promote Thant from Acting Secretary-General to Secretary-General for a term ending on 3 November 1966. For personal reasons, Thant wanted his term to

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aerial reconnaissance photographs of Soviet missile installations in Cuba. The president then ordered a naval "quarantine" to remove all offensive weapons from Soviet ships bound for Cuba. Meanwhile, Soviet ships were approaching the quarantine zone. To avoid a naval confrontation, Thant proposed

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began and Thant risked his life to go to Karen camps to negotiate for peace. The negotiations broke down, and in 1949 the advancing insurgents burned his hometown, including his house. The insurgents pushed the front to within four miles of the capital Rangoon before they were beaten back. In the

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During World War II, the Japanese occupied Burma from 1942 to 1945. They brought Thant to Rangoon to lead the Educational Reorganizing Committee. However, Thant did not have any real power, and returned to Pantanaw. When teaching the Japanese language was made compulsory in Pantanaw high schools,

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magazine, to which Thant regularly contributed. Promising a good post, Furnivall urged Thant to complete a four-year university course and join the Civil Service, but Thant refused. After earning the certificate, he returned to Pantanaw to teach at the National High School as a senior teacher in

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After the death of his father, Thant believed he would not be able to complete a four-year degree and instead worked for a two-year teaching certificate at Rangoon University in 1926. As the eldest son he had to fulfill his filial duties and responsibilities to the family. At university, Thant,

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Thant received honorary degrees (LL.D) from Carleton University, Williams College, Princeton University, Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, University of California at Berkeley, University of Denver, Swarthmore College, New York University, Moscow University, Queen's

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In 1931, Thant won first place in All Burma Teachership Examination and became the school's headmaster by the age of twenty-five. Urged by Thant, his friend Nu took the local superintendent of schools position. Thant regularly contributed to several newspapers and magazines under the pen name

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and the foremost Burmese diplomat on the international stage, he was widely admired and held in great respect by the Burmese populace. When the military government refused him any honours, riots erupted in Rangoon; these were violently crushed by the government, leaving scores of casualties.

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to Congo. Within two weeks, the United States and the Soviet Union had agreed to appoint Thant as the Acting Secretary-General for the remainder of Hammarskjöld's term. However, the two superpowers spent another four weeks arguing over the details of his appointment. On 3 November 1961, the

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Thant had three brothers: Khant, Thaung, and Tin Maung. He was married to Daw Thein Tin. They had two sons and a daughter, but lost both sons; Maung Bo died in infancy, and Tin Maung Thant fell from a bus during a visit to Yangon. Tin Maung Thant's funeral procession, which was attended by

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allowing UN missile inspectors and the return of the body of the downed U-2 pilot. Castro, furious that the Soviets had agreed to remove missiles without his knowledge, categorically rejected any UN inspectors, although he did return the pilot's body. The inspection was done at sea by US

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At a critical moment—when the nuclear powers seemed set on a collision course—the Secretary-General's intervention led to the diversion of the Soviet ships headed for Cuba and interception by our Navy. This was the indispensable first step in the peaceful resolution of the Cuban crisis.

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bloc, to maintain equality in the United Nations between the superpowers. By 1966, when Thant was reappointed, all the big powers, in a unanimous vote of the Security Council, affirmed the importance of the secretary-generalship and his good offices, a clear tribute to Thant's work.

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In his farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Thant stated that he felt a "great sense of relief bordering on liberation" on relinquishing the "burdens of office". In an editorial published around 27 December 1971, praising Thant,

778:. The rest of the committee all wanted the prize to go to Thant. The disagreement lasted three years, and in 1966 and 1967 no prize was given, with Gunnar Jahn effectively vetoing an award to Thant. Outraged, Thant's undersecretary and Nobel Prize laureate 519:. Nu was told by a distant mutual relative to take care of Thant and the two soon became close friends. Thant was elected joint secretary of the University Philosophical Association and secretary of the Literary and Debating Society. In Rangoon, Thant met 1163:

which acknowledges and honors individuals or organizations for distinguished accomplishments toward the attainment of world peace. The meditation team also named a tiny island in the East River opposite the headquarters of the United Nations

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In less than one year in office, Thant faced a critical challenge to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis, the moment when the world came closest to a nuclear war. On 20 October 1962, two days before public announcements were made, U.S. president

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was declared in Rangoon and the surrounding metropolitan areas. What has come to be known as the U Thant crisis, the student-led protests over the shabby treatment of Thant by the Ne Win government, was crushed by the Burmese government.

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was delayed by the anticipated arrival of the People's Republic of China, and the Security Council did not begin voting until two weeks before the end of Thant's term. After every candidate was vetoed in the second round,

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In 1965 and 1966 a majority of the committee clearly favoured giving the prize to the third Secretary General, U Thant, and even to the first, Norway's Trygve Lie, but chairman Jahn more or less vetoed

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Negotiations continued. The U.S. agreed to dismantle missiles in Turkey and guaranteed never to invade Cuba in exchange for removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Thant flew to Cuba and discussed with

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In March 1964 pope Paul VI wrote to UN secretary general U Thant saying he was minded to appoint a permanent observer. In April, U Thant wrote back saying, in effect, fair enough, come ahead.

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After the Six-Day War, allowed himself to become a convenient scapegoat for international inaction, accepting this unenviable role with as much Buddhist detachment as could be summoned.

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and minister of health and education. Thant was survived by a daughter, an adopted son, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren (three girls and two boys). His only grandson,

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magazine. When Thant was fourteen, his father died and a series of inheritance disputes forced Thant's mother, Nan Thaung, and her four children into difficult financial times.

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Although a manifest pacifist and a devout Buddhist, Thant did not hesitate to use force when required. During the Congo Civil War in 1962, Katangan secessionists led by

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Thant and his family, including brothers Khant Thaung and Tin Maung, his mother Nan Thaung, and his daughter Aye Aye Thant and her husband, Tin Myint-U, in 1964

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stated that "the wise counsel of this dedicated man of peace will still be needed after his retirement". The editorial was titled "The Liberation of U Thant".

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Hanwong, L. (2014). ʻŪ than nai thāna lēkhāthikān ʻOngkān Sahaprachāchāt chāo ʻĒchīa khon rǣk . In A. Khamson, T. Weerakietsoontorn & C. Khuntong (Eds.),

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repeatedly attacked UN Operation in the Congo forces (ONUC). In December 1962, after ONUC suffered a sustained four-day attack in Katanga, Thant ordered the "

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in the United Nations, which was a long-standing problem, was realized. Thant sent a message to the Chinese government asking China to send a delegation.

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Already unwell, he told the General Assembly that he felt "a great sense of relief, bordering on liberation" at relinquishing "the burdens of office"...

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On 23 January 1971, Thant categorically announced that he would "under no circumstances" be available for a third term as secretary-general. The

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Unlike his two predecessors, Thant retired after ten years on speaking terms with all the big powers. In 1961, when he was first appointed, the

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and served in various positions in Nu's cabinet from 1948 to 1961. Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor that won his colleagues' respect.

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accidentally won in the third round when the United States, United Kingdom, and China failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained.

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in South Africa. He also established many of the UN's development and environmental agencies, funds and programmes, including the

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end five years from his initial appointment, and he would henceforth consider his first five years in office to be a single term.

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Thant's once good relationship with the US government deteriorated rapidly when he publicly criticized American conduct of the

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of the Nobel Peace Prize committee lobbied heavily against giving Thant the prize, which was, at the last minute, awarded to

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was supposedly envious of Thant's international stature and the respect that was accorded him by the Burmese populace.

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A. Walter Dorn and Robert Pauk (November 2012). "The closest brush: How a UN secretary-general averted doomsday".

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Kissling, F.; Shannon, D. (1996). "Church and state at the United Nations. A case of the emperor's new clothes".

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Thant meeting with U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in the Cabinet Room of the White House on 21 February 1968

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From the United Nations headquarters in New York where he was laid in state, Thant's body was flown back to

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The Sinai Blunder: Withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Force leading to the Six-Day War of June 1967

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reconnaissance aircraft and warships. The crisis was resolved and a war between superpowers was averted.

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dignitaries, was grander than that of the state funeral of Commodore Than Pe, a member of the 17-man

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campus and the forcible removal of Thant's coffin, many people rioted in the streets of Rangoon.

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The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership

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He also took part in a number of international conferences and was the secretary of the 1955

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Middleton, Drew (20 September 1966). "Election of Thant with Wider Role in U.N. Due Today".

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of 1962, helping to avert a global catastrophe. Later, in December that year, Thant ordered

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A total of 3,683 days, taking into account a one-month vacancy in November–December 1966.

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Middleton, Drew (2 September 1966). "Thant Declares He Will Not Seek Second U.N. Term".

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Middleton, Drew (3 December 1966). "Thant, Renamed, Vows New Effort to End Asian War".

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Brewer, Sam Pope (29 November 1962). "Russians Agree to Naming Thant for a Full Term".

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inspired Israel's refusal to place her vital interests again in United Nations hands".

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in a last-minute peace effort, tried to persuade Nasser not to go to war with Israel.

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Thant announced in 1966 that he would not stand for a second term, but he accepted a

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1928. He contacted Furnivall and Nu regularly, writing articles and participating in

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He was criticized in the US and Israel for agreeing to pull UNEF troops out of the

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Thant defied the orders and cooperated with the growing anti-Japanese resistance.

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Ne ordered for Thant to be buried without any official involvement or ceremony.

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voted unanimously to appoint Thant to a term of office ending on 10 April 1963.

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following year, Thant was appointed secretary to the government of Burma in the

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to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.

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He was appointed Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his predecessor,

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U Thant in New York, 1961–1971: A Portrait of the Third UN Secretary-General

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During his first term, he was widely credited for his role in defusing the

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Burnham, Alexander (1 December 1962). "U.N. Names Thant for 4-Year Term".

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Brewer, Sam Pope (4 November 1961). "Thant Is Elected Interim U.N. Head".

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Provisional Secretary-General prior to the election of Trygve Lie.

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in New York on 25 November 1974. By then, Burma was ruled by a

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Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroad of Asia

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formula of three secretaries-general, one representing each

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of new Asian and African states, and was a firm opponent of

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called Gunnar Jahn's decision "gross injustice to U Thant."

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Yō̜n phinit phūsāng prawattisāt ʻĒchīa Tawanʻō̜k Chīang Tai

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Permanent Representatives of Myanmar to the United Nations

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Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia:Research Starters

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all took place during his tenure as secretary-general.

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The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

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Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding

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Thant's reappointment was assured when Soviet Premier

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Timing the De-escalation of International Conflicts

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Thant swearing in to the United Nations Secretariat

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