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Carlos P. Romulo ( - ) had a career that spanned seven decades. He was a WW2 General, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a signatory of the United Nations Charter, and the Philippines’ leading diplomat. Here are random vignettes—moments—from his life. Write to us if you’d like to read about a specific time in his life.
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“There are spots of evil in the world.
. . . But in the main our world is made up of people of potential goodwill, willing, if the path before them is outlined, to become sharers of the light.”
Orders from Tokyo,
An impassioned broadcast about the suffering of Filipinos via the US Office of War Information.
Carlos romulo igorot He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at He studied basic education at Camiling Central elementary school. Romulo entered University of the Philippines, where he received a bachelor's degree in After getting a master of arts from Columbia University in , he returned to work as professor of English and chairman of the English department of the University of the Philippines Romulo 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.The resulting film was used to convict Emperor Hirohito and other Japanese leaders.
ASEAN
Since its founding, ASEAN has succeeded in becoming one of the most successful regional alliances in maintaining peace and avoiding conflicts.
FDR,
It was at this significant juncture, early in , that Carlos Romulo, publisher of The Philippines Herald, sat down privately with Franklin D.
Roosevelt
King Consort,
In , a young Carlos Romulo was handpicked by his boss, Don Manuel Earnshaw, to be the King Consort to that year’s Queen: Virginia Vidal Llamas.
JFK,
After ten years as our ambassador to the United States, Carlos P.
Romulo announced in that he was going home.
Pensionado,
On the morning of July 23, , he boarded the Japanese ship S.S. Suwa Maru as a government-sponsored pensionado on his way to attend Columbia University.