u thant

     

Before his diplomatic career he was an educator, serving on Burma's textbook committee

Trivia about u thant

  • In the 1960s this Burmese secretary-general sought to apply Buddhist principles to international problem solving
  • He succeeded Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General & used a single letter before his name
  • At university in the 1920s he met U Nu
  • In 1957 he was named Burma's permanent representative to the U.N.
  • This advisor to Burma's first premier, U Nu, later became a U.N. Secretary-General
  • He served as headmaster of the national high school in his hometown of Pantana, Burma
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis & the 1967 Arab-Israeli War occurred while he served as U.N. Secretary-General
  • In 1965 this U.N. Secretary-General from Asia became the first to win the Nehru Award for Int'l Understanding
  • To date he's the only Asian to have served as Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • He was press director for Burma's interim government following its vote for independence

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