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Pridi Phanomyong

Thammasat University

university, Bangkok, Thailand

Also known as: University of Moral and Political Science

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Pridi Phanomyong
…Moral and Political Science (now Thammasat University). He served as minister of finance (1938–41) under Phibunsongkhram but resigned in protest against pro-Japanese policies and was appointed regent for the boy king Ananda Mahidol, then at school in Switzerland. As regent, Pridi directed the anti-Japanese underground Free Thai Movement in the…
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…Moral and Political Science (now Thammasat University). He served as minister of finance (1938–41) under Phibunsongkhram but resigned in protest against pro-Japanese policies and was appointed regent for the boy king Ananda Mahidol, then at school in Switzerland. As regent, Pridi directed the anti-Japanese underground Free Thai Movement in the…
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