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<ul id="toc-Second_term:_Arab–Israeli_conflict_and_Vietnam_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retirement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retirement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Retirement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retirement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death_and_legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death_and_legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Death and legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death_and_legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards,_honors,_and_memorials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards,_honors,_and_memorials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Awards, honors, and memorials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards,_honors,_and_memorials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Citations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Citations subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Endnotes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Endnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Endnotes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Endnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA" title="يو ثانت – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="يو ثانت" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Tan" title="U Tan – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="U Tan" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89_%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F" title="উ থান্ট – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="উ থান্ট" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84" title="Ου Θαντ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ου Θαντ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA" title="او تانت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="او تانت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%B0_%EB%94%B4" title="우 딴 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="우 딴" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82_%D5%8F%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="Ու Տան – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ու Տան" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A5%B0_%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F" title="यू॰ थांट – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="यू॰ थांट" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98" title="או תאנט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="או תאנט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A3_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="უ ტანი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="უ ტანი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Tans" title="U Tans – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="U Tans" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82" title="У Тант – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="У Тант" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D" title="ഉ താൻറ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഉ താൻറ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89_%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F" title="उ थांट – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="उ थांट" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA" title="او ثانت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="او ثانت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA" title="او تانت – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="او تانت" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82" title="У Тант – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="У Тант" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%94%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA" title="ဦးသန့် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဦးသန့်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88" title="ウ・タント – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ウ・タント" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-blk mw-list-item"><a href="https://blk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%94%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA" title="ဦးသန့် – Pa'O" lang="blk" hreflang="blk" data-title="ဦးသန့်" data-language-autonym="ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ" data-language-local-name="Pa'O" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A2%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%BC_%E1%9E%90%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%93%E1%9F%8B" title="អ៊ូ ថាន់ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="អ៊ូ ថាន់" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="У Тан" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%8C_%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A" title="ඌ තාන් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="ඌ තාන්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Tant" title="U Tant – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="U Tant" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82" title="У Тант – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="У Тант" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8A_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D" title="ஊ தாண்ட் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஊ தாண்ட்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%82_%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D" title="యూ థాంట్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="యూ థాంట్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B1%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%99" title="อู้ตั่น – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="อู้ตั่น" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant" title="U Thant – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="U Thant" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="У Тан – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="У Тан" 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href="/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations" title="Secretary-General of the United Nations">Secretary-General of the United Nations</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld" title="Dag Hammarskjöld">Dag Hammarskjöld</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim" title="Kurt Waldheim">Kurt Waldheim</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1909-01-22</span>)</span>22 January 1909<br /><a href="/wiki/Pantanaw" title="Pantanaw">Pantanaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma" title="British rule in Burma">British Burma</a><br />(now Myanmar)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">25 November 1974<span style="display:none">(1974-11-25)</span> (aged 65)</span><br />New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kandawmin_Garden_Mausolea" title="Kandawmin Garden Mausolea">Kandawmin Garden Mausolea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a>, Myanmar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Fascist_People%27s_Freedom_League" title="Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League">AFPFL</a> (1947–1958)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Daw Thein Tin</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1932)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thant_Myint-U" title="Thant Myint-U">Thant Myint-U</a> (grandson)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma 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article contains <a href="/wiki/Burmese_alphabet" title="Burmese alphabet">Burmese script</a>.</b> Without proper <a href="/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(Burmese)" title="Help:Multilingual support (Burmese)">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)#Replacement_character" title="Specials (Unicode block)">question marks, boxes, or other symbols</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Burmese_alphabet" title="Burmese alphabet">Burmese script</a>.</div></div> </div> <p><b>Thant</b> (<a href="/wiki/Burmese_language" title="Burmese language">Burmese</a>: <span title="Burmese-language text"><span lang="my" style="font-style: normal;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1204105569">.mw-parser-output .script-myanmar{line-height:100%;font-family:"Noto Sans Myanmar",Pyidaungsu,"Myanmar Text",Myanmar3,Myanmar2,Myanmar1,Padauk,mm3web,TharLon,"Masterpiece Uni Sans",Parabaik,Yunghkio,Thanlwin,"Win Uni Innwa","MyMyanmar Unicode","WinUni Innwa"}</style><span class="script-myanmar">သန့်</span></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/MLC_Transcription_System" title="MLC Transcription System">MLCTS</a>: <i><span title="Transcription in Myanmar Language Commission Transcription System">san.</span></i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="my-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Burmese" title="Help:IPA/Burmese">[θa̰ɰ̃]</a></span>; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as <b>U Thant</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></span>/</a></span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a Burmese diplomat and the third <a href="/wiki/Secretary-general_of_the_United_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary-general of the United Nations">secretary-general of the United Nations</a> from 1961 to 1971, the first non-<a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> as well as Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A native of <a href="/wiki/Pantanaw" title="Pantanaw">Pantanaw</a>, Thant was educated at the National High School and at <a href="/wiki/Rangoon_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangoon University">Rangoon University</a>. In the days of tense political climate in Burma, he held moderate views positioning himself between fervent nationalists and British loyalists. He was a close friend of Burma's first Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/U_Nu" title="U Nu">U Nu</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He succeeded James Barrington as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld" title="Dag Hammarskjöld">Dag Hammarskjöld</a>, had <a href="/wiki/1961_Ndola_United_Nations_DC-6_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash">died in an air crash</a>. In his first term, Thant facilitated negotiations between U.S. president <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> and Soviet premier <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> of 1962, helping to avert a global catastrophe. Later, in December that year, Thant ordered <a href="/wiki/Operation_Grandslam" title="Operation Grandslam">Operation Grandslam</a>, which ended a secessionist insurgency in <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_(L%C3%A9opoldville)" title="Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)">Congo</a>. He was reappointed as Secretary-General on 2 December 1966, by a unanimous vote of the Security Council. During his second term Thant was well known for publicly criticizing U.S. conduct in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. He oversaw the entry of several newly independent African and Asian states into the UN. He refused to serve a third term, and retired in 1971. </p><p>Thant died of <a href="/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer">lung cancer</a> in 1974. A devout <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> 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. The Deputy Minister of Education, who paid respect to U Thant’s body at the Mingalardon air port, was forced to resign. </p><p>A book about ဦးသန့်အရေးအခင်း had to wait a few decades before publication. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U_Thant_in_1927.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/U_Thant_in_1927.PNG/220px-U_Thant_in_1927.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/U_Thant_in_1927.PNG/330px-U_Thant_in_1927.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/U_Thant_in_1927.PNG/440px-U_Thant_in_1927.PNG 2x" data-file-width="734" data-file-height="876" /></a><figcaption>Thant as a <a href="/wiki/Rangoon_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangoon University">Rangoon University</a> student in 1927</figcaption></figure> <p>Thant, the eldest of four sons, was born in <a href="/wiki/Pantanaw" title="Pantanaw">Pantanaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Burma">Colonial Burma</a>, to a moderately-wealthy family of landowners and rice merchants. His father Po Hnit, who had been educated in <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a>, was the only person in the town who could communicate well in English.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196629_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196629-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Burma_Research_Society" title="Burma Research Society">Burma Research Society</a> and had helped establish <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(Rangoon)" title="The Sun (Rangoon)">The Sun</a></i> (<i>Thuriya</i>) newspaper in Rangoon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196629_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196629-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mm_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although his family members were ethnic <a href="/wiki/Bamar_people" title="Bamar people">Bamars</a> and devout <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhists</a>, Thant's father, according to <a href="/wiki/Thant_Myint-U" title="Thant Myint-U">Thant Myint-U</a> (U Thant's grandson), had distant ancestors who were "people from both India and China, Buddhists and Muslims, as well as Shans and Mons".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He hoped that all his four sons would each earn a degree.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196632_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196632-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other sons, Khant, Thaung, and Tin Maung went on to become politicians and scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-mm_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from reading, he enjoyed various sports including hiking, swimming and playing <a href="/wiki/Chinlone" title="Chinlone">chinlone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196633_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196633-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He went to the National High School in Pantanaw. At the age of eleven Thant participated in strikes against the University Act of 1920. He dreamed of becoming a journalist and surprised the family by writing an article for the <i><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Burma_Boy_Scouts" class="mw-redirect" title="Union of Burma Boy Scouts">Union of Burma Boy Scouts</a></i> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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, together with future <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Myanmar" title="Prime Minister of Myanmar">Prime Minister</a> Nu studied history under <a href="/wiki/D._G._E._Hall" title="D. G. E. Hall">D. G. E. Hall</a>. Nu was told by a distant mutual relative to take care of Thant and the two soon became close friends.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196688_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196688-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thant was elected joint secretary of the University Philosophical Association and secretary of the Literary and Debating Society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196689_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196689-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Rangoon, Thant met <a href="/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall" title="John Sydenham Furnivall">J.S. Furnivall</a>, the founder of The Burma Book Club and <i><a href="/wiki/The_World_of_Books" title="The World of Books">The World of Books</a></i> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196693_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196693-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After earning the certificate, he returned to Pantanaw to teach at the National High School as a senior teacher in 1928. He contacted Furnivall and Nu regularly, writing articles and participating in <i>The World of Books</i> translation competitions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196694_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196694-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1931, Thant won first place in All Burma Teachership Examination and became the school's headmaster by the age of twenty-five.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196697_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196697-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 "Thilawa" and translated a number of books, including one on the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His major influences were Sir <a href="/wiki/Stafford_Cripps" title="Stafford Cripps">Stafford Cripps</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" title="Sun Yat-sen">Sun Yat-sen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the days of tense political climate in Burma, Thant stood moderate grounds between fervent nationalists and British loyalists.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_servant">Civil servant</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Civil servant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg/220px-U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg/330px-U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg/440px-U_Nu_with_U_Thant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="469" data-file-height="396" /></a><figcaption>Thant with U Nu in 1955 on an early morning walk</figcaption></figure> <p>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, Thant defied the orders and cooperated with the growing anti-Japanese resistance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007145_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007145-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1948, <a href="/wiki/Post-independence_Burma,_1948%E2%80%931962" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-independence Burma, 1948–1962">Burma gained independence from the United Kingdom</a>. Nu became the prime minister of the newly independent Burma and appointed Thant as director of broadcasting in 1948. By then, civil war had broken out. The <a href="/wiki/Karen_conflict" title="Karen conflict">Karen insurgency</a> 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 following year, Thant was appointed secretary to the government of Burma in the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(Burma)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Information (Burma)">Ministry of Information</a>. From 1951 to 1957, Thant was secretary to the prime minister, writing speeches for U Nu, arranging his foreign travel, and meeting foreign visitors. During this entire period, he was U Nu's closest confidant and advisor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007145_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007145-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also took part in a number of international conferences and was the secretary of the 1955 <a href="/wiki/Bandung_Conference" title="Bandung Conference">Bandung Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, which gave birth to the <a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a>. From 1957 to 1961, he was Burma's permanent representative to the United Nations and became actively involved in negotiations over <a href="/wiki/Nationalism_and_resistance_in_Algeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalism and resistance in Algeria">Algerian independence</a>. In 1961, Thant was named Chairman of the UN Congo Commission. The Burmese government awarded him the title <i>Maha Thray Sithu</i> as a commander in the <a href="/wiki/Pyidaungsu_Sithu_Thingaha" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyidaungsu Sithu Thingaha">order of Pyidaungsu Sithu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_Nations_Secretary-General">United Nations Secretary-General</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: United Nations Secretary-General"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg/220px-U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg/330px-U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg/440px-U_Thant_swearing_in.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="606" /></a><figcaption>Thant swearing in to the United Nations Secretariat</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/1961_United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection" title="1961 United Nations Secretary-General selection">1961 United Nations Secretary-General selection</a></div> <p>In September 1961, United Nations Secretary-General <a href="/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld" title="Dag Hammarskjöld">Dag Hammarskjöld</a> was killed <a href="/wiki/1961_Ndola_United_Nations_DC-6_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash">in a plane crash</a> <i>en route</i> 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 <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">Security Council</a> recommended Thant in <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_168" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 168">Resolution 168</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">General Assembly</a> voted unanimously to appoint Thant to a term of office ending on 10 April 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19611104_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19611104-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his first term, he was widely credited for his role in defusing the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> and for ending the <a href="/wiki/Congo_Crisis" title="Congo Crisis">civil war in the Congo</a>. He also said that he wanted to ease tensions between major powers while serving at the UN.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term:_Cuban_Missile_Crisis">First term: Cuban Missile Crisis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: First term: Cuban Missile Crisis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>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. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson</a>, Senate Foreign Relations Committee 88th Congress, 13 March 1963<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009265_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009265-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG/250px-U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG/330px-U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG/500px-U_Thant_and_John_F._Kennedy.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1045" data-file-height="1376" /></a><figcaption>Thant shaking hands with <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> during Kennedy's visit to the UN Headquarters</figcaption></figure> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> showed Thant <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_U-2" title="Lockheed U-2">U-2</a> 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 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk201280_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk201280-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Khrushchev further agreed to suspend missile shipments while the negotiations were ongoing.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt62_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt62-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/EXCOMM" title="EXCOMM">Executive Committee</a> (ExComm). Kennedy hoped Thant would play the role of mediator and subsequently replied to ExComm and the Joint Chiefs, "On the other hand we have U Thant, and we don't want to sink a ship...right in the middle of when U Thant is supposedly arranging for the Russians to stay out."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009273_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009273-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> 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 reconnaissance aircraft and warships. The crisis was resolved and a war between superpowers was averted.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009292_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009292-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Continuation_of_first_term:_War_in_the_Congo">Continuation of first term: War in the Congo</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Continuation of first term: War in the Congo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thant's reappointment was assured when Soviet Premier <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> made several favorable references to Thant in letters to U.S. president John F. Kennedy.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19621129_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19621129-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19621201_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19621201-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For personal reasons, Thant wanted his term to end five years from his initial appointment,<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19621129_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19621129-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he would henceforth consider his first five years in office to be a single term.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19660902_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19660902-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Moise_Tshombe" class="mw-redirect" title="Moise Tshombe">Moise Tshombe</a> 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 "<a href="/wiki/Operation_Grandslam" title="Operation Grandslam">Operation Grandslam</a>" to gain "complete freedom of movement for ONUC all over Katanga." The operation proved to be decisive and ended the secessionist insurgency once and for all. By January 1963, the secessionist capital <a href="/wiki/Lubumbashi" title="Lubumbashi">Elizabethville</a> was under full UN control.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007161_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007161-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his speech at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> Thant expressed expectation of completion of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Operation_in_the_Congo" title="United Nations Operation in the Congo">United Nations Operation in the Congo</a> in mid 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-Institut_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Institut-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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?"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, Chairman <a href="/wiki/Gunnar_Jahn" title="Gunnar Jahn">Gunnar Jahn</a> of the Nobel Peace Prize committee lobbied heavily against giving Thant the prize, which was, at the last minute, awarded to <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNICEF">UNICEF</a>. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outraged, Thant's undersecretary and Nobel Prize laureate <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bunche" title="Ralph Bunche">Ralph Bunche</a> called Gunnar Jahn's decision "gross injustice to U Thant."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 1964, Thant accepted the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>'s designation of itself as a UN <a href="/wiki/Permanent_observer" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent observer">permanent observer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There appeared to be no involvement of the General Assembly or the UN Security Council in the decision.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Singapore%E2%80%99s_Lee_Kuan_Yew,_S._Rajaratnam,_Abdul_Rahim_Ishak,_Wong_Lin_Ken_with_U_Thant_at_the_UN_in_1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Singapore%E2%80%99s_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_S._Rajaratnam%2C_Abdul_Rahim_Ishak%2C_Wong_Lin_Ken_with_U_Thant_at_the_UN_in_1967.jpg/250px-Singapore%E2%80%99s_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_S._Rajaratnam%2C_Abdul_Rahim_Ishak%2C_Wong_Lin_Ken_with_U_Thant_at_the_UN_in_1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Singapore%E2%80%99s_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_S._Rajaratnam%2C_Abdul_Rahim_Ishak%2C_Wong_Lin_Ken_with_U_Thant_at_the_UN_in_1967.jpg/500px-Singapore%E2%80%99s_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_S._Rajaratnam%2C_Abdul_Rahim_Ishak%2C_Wong_Lin_Ken_with_U_Thant_at_the_UN_in_1967.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="382" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Singapore" title="Prime Minister of Singapore">Prime Minister of Singapore</a> Visits <a href="/wiki/UN_Headquarters" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Headquarters">UN Headquarters</a> on 1967-10-21: Seen here, from left: Inche Rahim Ishak (<a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_Ishak" title="Abdul Rahim Ishak">Abdul Rahim Ishak</a>), Minister of State for Education of Singapore; Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew" title="Lee Kuan Yew">Lee Kuan Yew</a>; Secretary-General U Thant; <a href="/wiki/S._Rajaratnam" title="S. Rajaratnam">S. Rajaratnam</a>, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore; and Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Wong_Lin_Ken" title="Wong Lin Ken">Wong Lin Ken</a>, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations.<sup id="cite_ref-UN1_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN1-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term:_Arab–Israeli_conflict_and_Vietnam_War"><span id="Second_term:_Arab.E2.80.93Israeli_conflict_and_Vietnam_War"></span>Second term: Arab–Israeli conflict and Vietnam War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Second term: Arab–Israeli conflict and Vietnam War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176" /><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>After the Six-Day War, [Thant] allowed himself to become a convenient scapegoat for international inaction, accepting this unenviable role with as much Buddhist detachment as could be summoned. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Walter_Dorn" title="Walter Dorn">Walter Dorn</a>, 2007<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007177_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007177-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Thant announced in 1966 that he would not stand for a second term,<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19660902_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19660902-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he accepted a <a href="/wiki/Draft_(politics)" title="Draft (politics)">draft</a> when the Security Council assured him that he would not be a "glorified clerk."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19661202_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19661202-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes19661203_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes19661203-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his second term, he oversaw the entry into the UN of dozens of new Asian and African states, and was a firm opponent of <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a> in South Africa. He also established many of the UN's development and environmental agencies, funds and programmes, including the <a href="/wiki/UN_Development_Programme" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Development Programme">UN Development Programme</a> (UNDP), the <a href="/wiki/UN_University" class="mw-redirect" title="UN University">UN University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Conference_on_Trade_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Conference on Trade and Development">United Nations Conference on Trade and Development</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Institute_for_Training_and_Research" title="United Nations Institute for Training and Research">United Nations Institute for Training and Research</a> (UNITAR), and the <a href="/wiki/UN_Environmental_Programme" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Environmental Programme">UN Environmental Programme</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> between <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> countries and <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a> and subsequent Soviet invasion of <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Indo–Pakistani War</a> of 1971 leading to the birth of <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> all took place during his tenure as secretary-general.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U-Thant_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/U-Thant_2.jpg/250px-U-Thant_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/U-Thant_2.jpg/330px-U-Thant_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/U-Thant_2.jpg/500px-U-Thant_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="968" /></a><figcaption>Thant meeting with U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in the Cabinet Room of the White House on 21 February 1968</figcaption></figure> <p>He was criticized in the US and Israel for agreeing to pull UNEF troops out of the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai</a> in 1967 in response to a request from <a href="/wiki/President_of_Egypt" title="President of Egypt">Egyptian president</a> <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Gamal Abdel Nasser</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Permanent Representative of Egypt had informed Thant that the Egyptian government had decided to terminate UNEF's presence in the Sinai and the Gaza Strip, and requested steps that would withdraw the force as soon as possible, which Thant was obligated to accept<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. The UN afterwards stated, "Because Israel refused to accept UNEF on its territory, the Force had to be deployed only on the Egyptian side of the border, and thus its functioning was entirely contingent upon the consent of Egypt as the host country. Once that consent was withdrawn, its operation could no longer be maintained."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thant, by flying to <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> in a last-minute peace effort, tried to persuade Nasser not to go to war with Israel.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>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,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it "thereafter inspired Israel's refusal to place her vital interests again in United Nations hands".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thant's once good relationship with the US government deteriorated rapidly when he publicly criticized American conduct of the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His secret attempts at direct peace talks between <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">Washington</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">Hanoi</a> were eventually rejected by the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson">Johnson administration</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1971, the participation of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retirement">Retirement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Retirement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 23 January 1971, Thant announced that he would "under no circumstances" be available for a third term as secretary-general. The <a href="/wiki/1971_United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection" title="1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection">1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim" title="Kurt Waldheim">Kurt Waldheim</a> accidentally won in the third round when the United States, United Kingdom, and China failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained.<sup id="cite_ref-frus247_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frus247-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> tried to insist on a <i><a href="/wiki/Triumvirate" title="Triumvirate">troika</a></i> formula of three secretaries-general, one representing each <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an editorial published around 27 December 1971, praising Thant, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> 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".<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2012_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2012-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While serving as secretary-general, Thant lived in <a href="/wiki/Riverdale,_Bronx" title="Riverdale, Bronx">Riverdale, Bronx</a>, on a 4.75-acre (1.92 ha) estate near 232nd Street, between Palisade and Douglas Avenues.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/U_Thant_funeral_crisis" title="U Thant funeral crisis">U Thant funeral crisis</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176" /><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>U Thant has put the world deeply in his debt. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—John F. Kennedy, October 1962<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009261_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009261-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Thant died of lung cancer at the <a href="/wiki/NewYork-Presbyterian_Hospital" title="NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital">NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital</a> in New York on 25 November 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By then, Burma was ruled by a <a href="/wiki/Military_junta" title="Military junta">military junta</a>, which refused him any honours. Burmese president <a href="/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a> was supposedly envious of Thant's international stature and the respect that was accorded him by the Burmese populace. </p><p>However, Thant's grandson, <a href="/wiki/Thant_Myint-U" title="Thant Myint-U">Thant Myint-U</a>, wrote in the book <i>The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma</i> 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 inappropriate.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ne ordered for Thant to be buried without any official involvement or ceremony. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg/220px-Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg/330px-Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg/440px-Tomb_of_U_Thant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kandawmin_Garden_Mausolea" title="Kandawmin Garden Mausolea">Thant's tomb</a>, Shwedagon Pagoda Road, Rangoon</figcaption></figure> <p>From the United Nations headquarters in New York where he was laid in state, Thant's body was flown back to <a href="/wiki/Rangoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangoon">Rangoon</a>, but no guard of honour or high-ranking officials were on hand at the airport when the coffin arrived except for U Aung Tun, deputy minister of education, who was subsequently dismissed from office.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the day of Thant's funeral on 5 December 1974, tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Rangoon to pay their last respects. Thant's coffin was displayed at Rangoon's Kyaikasan race course for a few hours before the scheduled burial. The coffin of Thant was then snatched by a group of students just before it was scheduled to leave for burial in an ordinary Rangoon cemetery at <a href="/wiki/Kyandaw_Cemetery" title="Kyandaw Cemetery">Kyandaw</a>. The student demonstrators buried Thant on the former grounds of the Rangoon University Students Union (RUSU), which Ne Win had dynamited and <a href="/wiki/1962_Rangoon_University_Protests" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 Rangoon University Protests">destroyed on 8 July 1962.</a><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/U_Thant_Funeral_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="U Thant Funeral Crisis">During the period of 5–11 December</a>, the student demonstrators also built a temporary mausoleum for Thant on the grounds of the RUSU and gave anti-government speeches. In early morning on 12 December 1974, government troops stormed the campus, killed some of the students guarding the makeshift mausoleum, removed Thant's coffin, and reburied it in <a href="/wiki/Kandawmin_Garden_Mausolea" title="Kandawmin Garden Mausolea">Kandawmin Garden Mausolea</a> near the <a href="/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda" title="Shwedagon Pagoda">Shwedagon Pagoda</a>, where it has continued to lie.<sup id="cite_ref-at_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-at-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon hearing of the storming of the <a href="/wiki/Rangoon_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangoon University">Rangoon University</a> campus and the forcible removal of Thant's coffin, many people rioted in the streets of Rangoon. <a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">Martial law</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-at_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-at-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2012, UN Secretary-General <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> paid his respects at U Thant's mausoleum during a visit to Yangon.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>U Thant is held in esteem in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, as he helped to endorse the formation of the country in 1963. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG/350px-U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG" decoding="async" width="350" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG/525px-U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG/700px-U_Thant%27s_family_1964.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1046" data-file-height="818" /></a><figcaption>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</figcaption></figure> <p>Thant had three brothers: Khant, Thaung, and Tin Maung.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 dignitaries, was grander than that of the state funeral of Commodore Than Pe, a member of the 17-man <a href="/wiki/Union_Revolutionary_Council" title="Union Revolutionary Council">Revolutionary Council</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Thant_Myint-U" title="Thant Myint-U">Thant Myint-U</a>, is a historian and a former senior official in the UN's Department of Political Affairs and the author of <i>The River of Lost Footsteps</i>, in part a biography of Thant.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards,_honors,_and_memorials"><span id="Awards.2C_honors.2C_and_memorials"></span>Awards, honors, and memorials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards, honors, and memorials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 Gunnar Jahn's veto, Thant, according to <a href="/wiki/Walter_Dorn" title="Walter Dorn">Walter Dorn</a>, "recorded his pleasure".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he did accept the <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Award_for_International_Understanding" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding">Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding</a> in 1965<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Prize_in_the_Field_of_Human_Rights" title="United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights">United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights</a> in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 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.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his memory, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a>, the leader of the UN Meditation Group founded by Thant, established the <a href="/wiki/U_Thant_Peace_Award" title="U Thant Peace Award">U Thant Peace Award</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/U_Thant_Island" title="U Thant Island">U Thant Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The road Jalan U-Thant (U-Thant Road) and the township <a href="/wiki/Taman_U-Thant" title="Taman U-Thant">Taman U-Thant</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> are also named in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2013, the building of an U Thant library near his Pantanaw house was underway.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a href="/wiki/Burmese_names#Honorifics" title="Burmese names">U</a>" is an <a href="/wiki/Honorific" title="Honorific">honorific</a> in <a href="/wiki/Burmese_language" title="Burmese language">Burmese</a>, roughly equal to "<a href="/wiki/Mr." title="Mr.">Mr.</a>" "Thant" was his only name, per Burmese convention. In Burmese, he was known as <b>Pantanaw U Thant</b>, in reference to his hometown, Pantanaw.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A total of 3,683 days, taking into account a one-month vacancy in November–December 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Endnotes">Endnotes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Endnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/formersg/uthant.shtml">"U Thant | United Nations Secretary-General"</a>. <i>www.un.org</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230315072337/https://www.un.org/sg/en/formersg/uthant.shtml">Archived</a> from the original on 15 March 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 March</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.un.org&rft.atitle=U+Thant+%26%23124%3B+United+Nations+Secretary-General&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fsg%2Fen%2Fformersg%2Futhant.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007147_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorn2007">Dorn 2007</a>, p. 147.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196629-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196629_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196629_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBingham1966">Bingham 1966</a>, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mm-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mm_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mm_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRobert_H._Taylor2008" class="citation book cs1">Robert H. Taylor, ed. (2008). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/drmaungmaunggent00tayl"><i>Dr. Maung Maung: Gentleman, Scholar, Patriot</i></a></span>. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/drmaungmaunggent00tayl/page/n226">211</a>–212. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-981-230-409-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-981-230-409-4"><bdi>978-981-230-409-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dr.+Maung+Maung%3A+Gentleman%2C+Scholar%2C+Patriot&rft.pages=211-212&rft.pub=Institute+of+Southeast+Asian+Studies&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-981-230-409-4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdrmaungmaunggent00tayl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFThant_Myint-U2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thant_Myint-U" title="Thant Myint-U">Thant Myint-U</a> (2011). <i>Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroad of Asia</i>. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 76. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-374-98408-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-374-98408-3"><bdi>978-0-374-98408-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Where+China+Meets+India%3A+Burma+and+the+New+Crossroad+of+Asia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=76&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-374-98408-3&rft.au=Thant+Myint-U&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196632-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196632_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBingham1966">Bingham 1966</a>, p. 32.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn2007144_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorn2007">Dorn 2007</a>, p. 144.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBingham196633-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBingham196633_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBingham1966">Bingham 1966</a>, p. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Franda, Marcus F. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 April</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Kennedy+Agrees+to+Talks+on+Thant+Plan%2C+Khrushchev+Accepts+It%3B+Blockade+Goes+On%3B+Russian+Tanker+Intercepted+and+Cleared&rft.date=1962-10-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.nytimes.com%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fbooks%2F97%2F10%2F19%2Fhome%2Fcrisis-26.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009273-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009273_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorn_&_Pauk2009">Dorn & Pauk 2009</a>, p. 273.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009292-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009292_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorn_&_Pauk2009">Dorn & Pauk 2009</a>, p. 292.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nytimes19621129-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes19621129_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes19621129_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBrewer1962" class="citation news cs1">Brewer, Sam Pope (29 November 1962). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 April</span> 2018</span>. <q>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 this.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=nobelprize.org&rft.atitle=The+Nobel+Peace+Prize%2C+1901%E2%80%932000&rft.aulast=Lundestad&rft.aufirst=Geir&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2Fnobel_prizes%2Fthemes%2Fpeace%2Flundestad-review%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMcCann2014" class="citation news cs1">McCann, Eamonn (23 January 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/how-did-the-holy-see-get-recognition-as-a-state-it-just-did-1.1664452">"How did the Holy See get recognition as a state? It just did"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Times" title="The Irish Times">The Irish Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201130030042/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/how-did-the-holy-see-get-recognition-as-a-state-it-just-did-1.1664452">Archived</a> from the original on 30 November 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 April</span> 2018</span>. <q>In March 1964 pope Paul VI wrote to UN secretary general U Thant saying he was minded to appoint a permanent observer. 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A group of neighbours from Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil has demanded that the city acquire as a public park the 4.75-acre (19,200 m<sup>2</sup>) parcel known as the Douglas-U Thant estate, north of 232d Street, between Palisade and Douglas Avenues."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009261-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorn_&_Pauk2009261_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDorn_&_Pauk2009">Dorn & Pauk 2009</a>, p. 261.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFThant_Myint-U2006" class="citation book cs1">Thant Myint-U (2006). <i>The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma</i>. <a href="/wiki/Farrar,_Straus_and_Giroux" title="Farrar, Straus and Giroux">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</a>. p. 311.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+River+of+Lost+Footsteps%3A+Histories+of+Burma&rft.pages=311&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=2006&rft.au=Thant+Myint-U&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Asian almanac, Volume 13.</i> (1975). s.n. p. 6809.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSmith2002" class="citation news cs1">Smith, Martin (6 December 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/06/guardianobituaries">"General Ne Win"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Irrawaddy&rft.atitle=U+Thant+Library+Project+Stalling+Due+to+Lack+of+Funds&rft.date=2013-10-03&rft.au=Simon+Roughneen&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irrawaddy.org%2Ffeature%2Fu-thant-library-project-stalling-due-lack-funds.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBingham1966" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/June_Bingham_Birge" title="June Bingham Birge">June Bingham Birge</a> (1966). <i>U Thant: The Search for Peace</i>. New York: Knopf Publishing Group.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=U+Thant%3A+The+Search+for+Peace&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Knopf+Publishing+Group&rft.date=1966&rft.au=June+Bingham+Birge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDorn_&_Pauk2009" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Dorn" title="Walter Dorn">A. Walter Dorn</a> and Robert Pauk (April 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://walterdorn.org/pub/144">"Unsung Mediator: U Thant and the Cuban Missile Crisis"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Diplomatic_History_(journal)" title="Diplomatic History (journal)">Diplomatic History</a></i>. <b>33</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">261–</span>291. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2008.00762.x">10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00762.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Diplomatic+History&rft.atitle=Unsung+Mediator%3A+U+Thant+and+the+Cuban+Missile+Crisis&rft.volume=33&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E261-%3C%2Fspan%3E291&rft.date=2009-04&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2008.00762.x&rft.au=A.+Walter+Dorn+and+Robert+Pauk&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwalterdorn.org%2Fpub%2F144&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLouis_&_Stuart1991" class="citation book cs1">Louis Kriesberg, Stuart J. Thorson (1991). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/timingdeescalati00stua"><i>Timing the De-escalation of International Conflicts</i></a></span>. Syracuse, NY: <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University_Press" title="Syracuse University Press">Syracuse University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8156-2521-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8156-2521-6"><bdi>978-0-8156-2521-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Timing+the+De-escalation+of+International+Conflicts&rft.place=Syracuse%2C+NY&rft.pub=Syracuse+University+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=978-0-8156-2521-6&rft.au=Louis+Kriesberg%2C+Stuart+J.+Thorson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftimingdeescalati00stua&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDorn_&_Pauk2012" class="citation journal cs1">A. Walter Dorn and Robert Pauk (November 2012). "The closest brush: How a UN secretary-general averted doomsday". <i><a href="/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists" title="Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</a></i>. <b>68</b> (6): <span class="nowrap">79–</span>84. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012BuAtS..68f..79D">2012BuAtS..68f..79D</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0096340212464363">10.1177/0096340212464363</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143657372">143657372</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+of+the+Atomic+Scientists&rft.atitle=The+closest+brush%3A+How+a+UN+secretary-general+averted+doomsday&rft.volume=68&rft.issue=6&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E79-%3C%2Fspan%3E84&rft.date=2012-11&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A143657372%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F0096340212464363&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2012BuAtS..68f..79D&rft.au=A.+Walter+Dorn+and+Robert+Pauk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLewis2012" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Lewis, Terrance L. (2012). "U Thant". <i>Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia:Research Starters</i>. Salem Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=U+Thant&rft.btitle=Salem+Press+Biographical+Encyclopedia%3AResearch+Starters&rft.pub=Salem+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.au=Lewis%2C+Terrance+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDorn2007" class="citation book cs1">A. Walter Dorn (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://walterdorn.org/pdf/UThant-BuddhismInAction_Dorn_SG-MoralAuthority_2007.pdf">"U Thant: Buddhism in Action"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. In Kille, Kent (ed.). <i>The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership</i>. Washington, DC: <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University_Press" title="Georgetown University Press">Georgetown University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58901-180-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58901-180-9"><bdi>978-1-58901-180-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=U+Thant%3A+Buddhism+in+Action&rft.btitle=The+UN+Secretary-General+and+Moral+Authority%3A+Ethics+and+Religion+in+International+Leadership&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Georgetown+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-58901-180-9&rft.au=A.+Walter+Dorn&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwalterdorn.org%2Fpdf%2FUThant-BuddhismInAction_Dorn_SG-MoralAuthority_2007.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFRUS_1969–1976_V" class="citation cs2">Duncan, Evan M., ed. (2004), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v05"><i>United Nations, 1969–1972</i></a>, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. V, Washington: United States Government Printing Office</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=United+Nations%2C+1969%E2%80%931972&rft.place=Washington&rft.series=Foreign+Relations+of+the+United+States%2C+1969%E2%80%931976&rft.pub=United+States+Government+Printing+Office&rft.date=2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhistory.state.gov%2Fhistoricaldocuments%2Ffrus1969-76v05&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBernard_J._Firestone2001" class="citation book cs1">Bernard J. Firestone (2001). <i>The United Nations under U Thant, 1961–1971</i>. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3700-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3700-3"><bdi>978-0-8108-3700-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+United+Nations+under+U+Thant%2C+1961%E2%80%931971&rft.place=Metuchen%2C+N.J&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-3700-3&rft.au=Bernard+J.+Firestone&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRamses_Nassif1988" class="citation book cs1">Ramses Nassif (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/uthantinnewyork100nass"><i>U Thant in New York, 1961–1971: A Portrait of the Third UN Secretary-General</i></a>. New York: St. Martin's Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-02117-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-02117-7"><bdi>978-0-312-02117-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=U+Thant+in+New+York%2C+1961%E2%80%931971%3A+A+Portrait+of+the+Third+UN+Secretary-General&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=St.+Martin%27s+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-312-02117-7&rft.au=Ramses+Nassif&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Futhantinnewyork100nass&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Hanwong, L. (2014). ʻŪ than nai thāna lēkhāthikān ʻOngkān Sahaprachāchāt chāo ʻĒchīa khon rǣk [U Thant as the first Asian secretary-general of the United Nations]. In A. Khamson, T. Weerakietsoontorn & C. Khuntong (Eds.), <i>Yō̜n phinit phūsāng prawattisāt ʻĒchīa Tawanʻō̜k Chīang Tai</i> [Reflections on Makers of Southeast Asian History 2] (pp. 131–63). Bangkok: Reviews of Southeast Asian History and Culture Project (TRF). (in Thai)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFU_Thant1978" class="citation book cs1">U Thant (1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/viewfromun00utha_0"><i>View from the UN</i></a>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-11541-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-11541-4"><bdi>978-0-385-11541-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=View+from+the+UN&rft.place=Garden+City%2C+NY&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=978-0-385-11541-4&rft.au=U+Thant&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fviewfromun00utha_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AU+Thant" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=U_Thant&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="new" title="John Somerville (philosopher) (page does not exist)">John Somerville</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1988</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989 <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Chavez" title="Cesar Chavez">César Chávez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990 <a href="/wiki/Marian_Wright_Edelman" title="Marian Wright Edelman">Marian Wright Edelman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991 <a href="/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern">George McGovern</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992 <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Clark" title="Ramsey Clark">Ramsey Clark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993 <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Walker" title="Lucius Walker">Lucius Walker</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994 <a href="/wiki/Roy_Bourgeois" title="Roy Bourgeois">Roy Bourgeois</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995 <a href="/wiki/Edith_Ballantyne" title="Edith Ballantyne">Edith 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