Abdul-Wahab Mirjan served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 1957 to 1958 at the time of that country's short-lived union with Jordan,which was formalized on February 14,1958. A relative newcomer to the Iraqi government,Mirjan first joined the cabinet in 1947. He resigned,less than a month after the federation was declared,in favor of Nuri al-Said. He survived the republican coup later that year and died in 1964. He was known,along with his father Abdul-Razzak Mirjan,as being compassionate to his country;Abdul-Razzak Mirjan and his cousin Abdul-Abbas Mirjan donated a number of valuable assets,such as Mirjan Hospital in Hilla province (Babylon) and a large number of houses for the poor people of Iraq.
Nu,commonly known as U Nu and also by the honorific name Thakin Nu,was a prominent Burmese statesman and the first Prime Minister of Union of Burma. He was educated at Rangoon University,where he developed his political ideas and became actively involved in the student movement. Nu's involvement in the nationalist movement deepened during his university years,and he quickly emerged as a leading figure advocating for Burma's independence from British colonial rule.
The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) was a broad popular front that ruled Burma between 1947 and 1958. It included both political parties and trade unions as members.
Ba Swe was the second Prime Minister of Burma. He was a leading Burmese politician during the decade after the country gained its independence from Britain in 1948. He held the position of prime minister from 12 June 1956 to 28 February 1957. When Ba Swe became prime minister,Time magazine reported the news in an article titled:'The Day of the Tiger' based on his nickname 'Big Tiger' since his university days in the 1930s as a student leader.
Hilary Adair Marquand,was a British economist and Labour Party politician.
The Panglong Conference,held in February 1947,was a historic meeting that took place at Panglong in the Shan States in Burma between the Shan,Kachin and Chin ethnic minority leaders and Aung San,head of the interim Burmese government. Aung Zan Wai,Pe Khin,Bo Hmu Aung,Sir Maung Gyi,Dr. Sein Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference who negotiated with Bamar representative General Aung San and other ethnic leaders in 1947. All these leaders unanimously decided to join the Union of Burma. On the agenda was the united struggle for independence from Britain and the future of Burma after independence as a unified independent republic.
Thakin Lwin was a Burmese politician and trade unionist,writer and journalist. He was a leading member of the anti-colonial Dobama Asiayone movement,a parliamentarian,the president of the Trade Union Congress (Burma) and a prominent leader of the Burma Workers and Peasants Party.
Robert Kenneth Christy was an American television,film,and radio character actor.
Frank Reppy Wilcox was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television series,as well as Broadway plays.
Pe Khin was a Burmese diplomat. He was one of the main negotiators at the Panglong Conference in Burma and the architect of the historical Panglong Agreement.
The Communist Party of Burma (CPB),also known as the Burma Communist Party (BCP),is an underground communist party in Myanmar. It is the oldest existing political party in the country.
Antal Apró was a Hungarian Communist politician,who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1971 and 1984.
Bo Let Ya was a Burmese army general and a member of the legendary Thirty Comrades who fought for Burma's independence from Britain. He also served as the 2nd Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Union of Burma and Deputy Prime Minister of Burma.
Thakin Kyaw Tun,or Thakin Kyaw Dun was a Burmese politician.
Kyaw Nyein,called honorifically U Kyaw Nyein,was a Burmese lawyer and anti-colonial revolutionary,a leader in Burma’s struggle for independence and prominent politician in the first decade after the country gained sovereignty from Britain. He held multiple minister portfolios in the government of Prime Minister U Nu,served as General Secretary of the ruling political alliance,Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL),and was joint General Secretary of the Burma Socialist Party (BSP).
The communist insurgency in Burma was waged primarily by the Communist Party of Burma and the Communist Party (Burma) from 1948 to 1989. The conflict ended when the CPB,severely weakened by an internal mutiny,disbanded its armed wing.
The Union Party was the ruling political party in Burma in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Formed by a split in the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League,it was initially known as the Clean Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League or Nu-Tin faction.
Maung Maung was a Burmese army brigadier,diplomat and author. He was one of the founders of the Anti-Fascist People's' Freedom League (AFPFL) and The Burma Socialist Party.
Nikolai Nikolayevich Organov was a Soviet politician and statesman,Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1959–62). Member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR (1961–1962). He was a member of the special NKVD troika of the USSR.
Moe Nyo Ko Ko Gyi was a politician and parliamentary secretary in the government of the Union of Burma. He was renowned for his contributions to housing and urban development across Burma,including the construction of schools,hospitals,and residential apartments. Yankin,a city located in the suburbs of the former capital of Burma,was the largest and earliest urban development project overseen by him.
