( In this valuable memoir, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo (1899-19...)
In this valuable memoir, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985), the Philippine war hero and impassioned diplomat who was one of the signers of the United Nations Charter in 1945, re-creates the heady spirit of the early days of the United Nations. . . . A leading spokesman for newly independent third world countries, he lobbied successfully to get the right of colonial countries to independence included in the Charter. The New York Times Book Review In his fascinating volume, Carlos P. Romulo, retired Foreign Minister of the Philippines and first Asian President of the United Nations, describes the development of that organization from its founding in San Francisco in 1945, when he signed its charter, to his farewell speech to the General Assembly in the fall of 1983. Related in the form of personal memories and impressions, the facts and dates in his narrative have been thoroughly checked and corroborated by his wife and co-author so that they blend integrally with the broader fabric of United Nations history. Not only is this a personal memoir but also an accurate and valuable historical account of a critical period in the history of the world. The volume will certainly be of immense interest to readers concerned with the conduct of international diplomacy, East-West relations, or relations with Third World countries.
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This book collects the lectures by Carlos P. Romulo while he was the Weil lecturer at the University of North Carolina. Topics include Asian Criticism of America, The Spiritual Offensive. The book was published in 1956.
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I Saw The Fall Of The Philippines by Colonel Carlos P. Romulo, personal aide to General MacArthur. Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1943 This novel is in very good condition, some slight dust cover rips but very good for its age.
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Includes the Second World War In The Philippines Illustration Pack - 237 maps, plans and photos. This is the story of the man whoat the time of the fall of Manilawas in charge of naval docks there, who escaped to the United States and in Washington helped formulate the whole plan for guerilla warfare. The results of his careful planning, of the bringing of the aid so long awaited by the nucleus on the IslandsFilipinos, un-surrendered soldiersarms, ammunition, medicines;of the coordination of all unrelated guerilla movements;of the salt water taxi (submarine) equipment missions;of the installations of coast watcher and radio stations; of the evacuation of American and Allied personnel and civilian population; of his discovery of guerilla initiative, efficiency and versatility; of the hide and seek of non-combat, ambush tactics, and the promotion of defensive to offensive strategy; all this eventually came into its own with D-Day on Leyte, October 1944. A story of military and morale building that paid dividends to our advantage, told with the flourish and zest it deserves.-Kirkus Reviews
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Diplomat journalist military statesman
Carlos Rómulo was born on Jan. 14, 1899, in Manila; but his well-to-do parents lived in Camiling, Tarlac. His father, Gregorio, was a Filipino guerrilla fighter with the Philippine revolutionary government of Emilio Aguinaldo during the Filipino-American War. Rómulo claimed to have witnessed his grandfather tortured by the water cure administered by American soldiers.
After early schooling in Tarlac, Rómulo entered the University of the Philippines, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1918. After getting a master of arts from Columbia University in 1921, he returned to work as professor of English and chairman of the English department of the University of the Philippines (1923 - 1928).
Rómulo became editor in chief of TVT Publications in 1931 and publisher and editor of the Philippines Herald (1933 - 1941). In 1929 he was appointed regent of the University of the Philippines. Previously he had served as secretary to Senate president Manuel Quezon (1922 - 1925) and as member of the Philippine Independence Mission, headed by Quezon. With the outbreak of World War II in 1941, Rómulo joined the staff of General Douglas MacArthur as press relations officer. He also served as secretary of information and public relations in Quezon's wartime Cabinet (1943 - 1944). He retreated with MacArthur from Bataan to Corregidor and then to Australia (1941 - 1942). While in Corregidor he broadcast for the Voice of Freedom. He served as aide-de-camp to MacArthur and rose from the rank of colonel (1942) to brigadier general (1944). In 1945 Rómulo acted as Philippine delegate to the United Nations Organization Conference in San Francisco. He was Philippine ambassador to the United Nations from 1946 to 1954. He distinguished himself as the first Asian to become president of the UN General Assembly (Fourth Session, Sept. 20, 1949). In 1950-1951 Rómulo acted as secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippine Republic and, from 1952 on (with some interruptions), as Philippine ambassador to the United States. After serving as president of the University of the Philippines and secretary of education(1963 - 1968), Rómulo was appointed by President Marcos to the post of secretary of foreign affairs. Rómulo's prolific pen is attested to by his books, such as I Saw the Fall of the Philippines (1942), Mother America (1943), My Brother Americans (1945), I See the Philippines Rise (1946), Crusade in Asia (1955), The Magsaysay Story (1956), I Walk with Heroes (1961), and Identity and Change (1965). He died, at 87, in Manila on 15 December 1985 and was buried in the Heroes’ Cemetery.
He was the only Filipino journalist who in 1941 received the coveted Pulitzer Prize for a series of pioneering articles on the Southeast Asian political situation in which he recorded his extensive travels in China, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Indonesia, and elsewhere and also he was the first Asian to serve as president of the UN General Assembly (1949). He also gained prominence as America's most trusted Asian spokesman. Rómulo was the recipient of more than a hundred honorary doctorates, awards, and medals, given by American and Asian universities, organizations, and foreign governments.
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Quotations:
"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. "
"Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land. "
"Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. "
"Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people. "
"Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal. "
"There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship. "
"A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and. .. pour new life and vigor in the national system.
The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people. .. To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino. "
"All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends. "
"I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true. "
"Age does not matter if the matter does not age. "
"Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind. "
"I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!"
Rómulo belonged to the elite, the oligarchic stratum of the Filipino ruling class, by virtue of his role as defender of the interests of the propertied minority. In spite of his candid reporting, he confessed in an interview, "I held back a lot because as a writer I knew hatred is created by incidents. " This revealed Rómulo's gift for shrewd diplomacy and somewhat "opportunistic" manner of dealing with people and events.
1896 - 1989
July 1, 1905 - _____
