Tribute Lecture to U Thant, 12 December 1974

Tribute Lecture to U Thant, 12 December 1974

Sri Chinmoy delivered the following tribute to U Thant on 12 December 1974, as part of his continuing Dag Hammarskjöld monthly lecture series at the United Nations, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at UN Headquarters in New York. The Chosen Instrument...
Secretary General U Thant – Biographical Data

Secretary General U Thant – Biographical Data

    U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was chosen to head the world body in November of 1961 after Secretary-Genera1 Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September of the same year. U Thant retired at the end of his second...