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U THANT

THE SEARCH FOR PEACE

JUNE BINGHAM

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Gratitude can be expressed but not, in this case, fully conveyed: there is too much of it. The kindness and patience of the academic community toward the nonacademic researcher is close to unbelievable. It is as if bankers, with no criterion other than the appealer`s need, repeatedly and cheerfully handed out cash. Kindness and patience are also qualities that characterize the Burmese, as well being the stock in trade of diplomats from many lands. It is, therefore, with profound thank that following persons are listed:

Among the Burmese, first and foremost is U Khant, U Thant`s second brother; also in Rangoon, U Thaung and U Tin Maung, the two younger brothers, and Daw Nan Thaung, mother of all four; Dr. Maung Maung, Chief Judge of the Chief Court; U Myo Min, Professor of English, Rangoon University; Dr. BaMaw, first Premier of Murma under the British; U Nyo Mya, former editor, Oway; and U Aung Chein, Imperial Police Service (retired). Other include the late U Aung Than, former Secretary of the Information Ministry; U Nyun, Secretary-General of the UN1s Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE); in Washington, U On Sein, former Burmese Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Htin Aung, former Rector of Rangoon University; and in Newyork, Ambasssador James Barrington Murma`s former Permanent Representative at the UN, Aye Than Doliner, U`Aung Thein, and U Thant`s wife, Daw Thein Tin, their daughter, Aye Aye, and son-in-law, Dr. Tyn Myint U.A special word of gratitude should be included for General Ne Win, leader of Burma`s  Revolutionary Council Govement, who made it posible  for my husband and me to visit Burma in August, 1964.

CONTENTS

Chronology

Cast of Characters

Prologue from Rangoon to Turtle Bay

Chapter: 

1.       Individual Roots

2.       Social Roots

3.       An Adolescent Takes Hold

4.       A Faith Takes Hold

5.       British Impact on a Man

6.       British Impact on a Country

7.       A Young Man Presses for Independence

8.       A  Country Presses for Independence

9.       World War II Engulfs a Man

10.  World War II Engulfs a Country

11.  A Man on the Wider Stage

12.  A Country on the Wider Stage

13.  A Man of the World

14.  The World Chooses a Man

Epilogue: The View from the 38^th Floor

Appendix

I.                Marco Polo`s description of the invasion of Burma by  the  Mongols

II.                A letter from King Mindon of Burma to president Fanklin piece (1856)

III.             The Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path

IV.            U Thant`s best-known pre-war article, “Oh! We Burmans” (1939)

V.               A list of books in Burmese by U Thant

Bibliography

Index

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