Khuang Aphaiwong

Khuang Aphaiwong

▪ Thai premier
Aphaiwong also spelled  Abhaiwong  
born May 17, 1902, Bătdâmbâng, Cambodia
died March 15, 1968, Bangkok

      Thai politician who founded and led Thailand's strongest opposition party and was three times premier of Thailand (1944–45, 1946, 1947–48). Khuang was a member of the Khmer family that under Thai auspices ruled western Cambodia from the 18th century and moved to Thailand when the region was transferred to France in 1907. He was educated in Paris and on his return to Thailand joined with Pridi Phanomyong and other former French students in the bloodless coup that overthrew Thailand's absolute monarchy and established a constitutional government in 1932. During World War II (1941–44), Khuang held the post of minister of commerce and communications in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram (Phibunsongkhram, Luang) and was one of the few Cabinet members who was not pro-Japanese. He was named prime minister in August 1944 as a result of the political manoeuvering of Pridi, who remained the effective power in the government from behind the scenes. As wartime leader, Khuang appeased the Japanese while encouraging underground operations subverting Japan's war effort.

      Resenting Pridi's domination, Khuang resigned in 1946 and led a pro-monarchy conservative government faction, founding the Democrat Party, the first major opposition in Thailand's new parliamentary assembly. From 1946 to 1948 Khuang moved in and out of the premiership two more times, managing to establish a short-lived civilian government, but he was under constant pressure from military factions. Phibunsongkhram finally deposed him in 1948. Khuang remained a popular figure, however, and was a vociferous opponent of Thailand's military regimes until his death.

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