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A Warrior for Peace broadcasts became widely known as the “Voice of Freedom.

” After
A short documentary chronicling Carlos P. Romulo’s career as a public Japan captured Corregidor, Romulo went with MacArthur
servant, including seventeen years as Secretary of Foreign Affairs and to Australia and then joined the Philippine government-in-exile of
ten years as the Philippines’ ambassador to the United States. In World Pres. Manuel Quezon in Washington, D.C., as secretary of
War II Romulo was aide-de-camp to General Douglas MacArthur. He information.
became a brigadier general in the United States Army in 1944, In 1941 Romulo won the Pulitzer Prize for Peace for his prewar
receiving the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for his service during the evaluations of the military situation in the Pacific area. He returned to
War, and later a major general in the Philippine Army. the Philippines with U.S. forces in 1945. In 1948 he served as president
As a journalist he wrote a series of articles about Japanese imperialism, of the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information in
for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He also authored twenty-two Geneva.
books, three plays, and several poems. The Philippine government Romulo was president of the General Assembly of the UN (1949–50)
named him a National Artist for Literature in 1982, and gave him the and in 1950 became secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippines. In
rank of Raja of the Order of Sikatuna, an honor usually reserved for 1952 he was named ambassador to the United States. No longer
heads of state. satisfied with the politics of the incumbent Liberal Party, he decided in
He signed the charter forming the United Nations in 1945, was elected 1953 to run for the presidency of the Philippines on a third-party ticket,
president of the UN General Assembly in 1949, and served as head of but he withdrew to become campaign manager for the successful
the UN Security Council a total of four times. Nacionalista Party candidate, Ramon Magsaysay. At the Bandung
By the time he died in 1985 “the General” had received well over a Conference of Afro-Asian countries in 1955, he criticized
hundred awards and decorations as well as more than sixty honorary the tyranny of both communist rule and Western colonialism.
degrees from universities all over the world. Extolled by Asiaweek as When the Philippines was elected to a seat on the United Nations
“A Man of His Century,” he was the most admired Filipino in Security Council in 1956, Romulo served as member of the council and
international diplomacy of the 20th century. during the month of January 1957 was its chairman. He served as
president of the University of the Philippines, near Manila (1962–68),
Carlos P. Romulo, in full Carlos Peña Romulo, (born January 14, and secretary of education (1966–68). He then became secretary of
1899, Camiling, Philippines—died December 15, 1985, Manila), foreign affairs (1968–78) and minister of foreign affairs (1978–84). In
Philippine general, diplomat, and journalist known for his activities on his later years, while serving under Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, Romulo
behalf of the Allies during World War II and his later work with became less democratic in his views. He supported Marcos’s
the United Nations. imposition of martial law in 1972 and had by the mid-1970s evolved
In 1931 Romulo was made editor in chief of TVT from a champion of a free press into an advocate of a controlled press,
Publications, comprising three newspapers, one in English, one in charging Western journalists with unfavourably reporting the problems
Spanish, and one in Tagalog (the second most prevalent language in of less-developed countries. Romulo’s autobiography, I Walked with
the Philippines). In 1937 he became publisher of another chain of Heroes, was published in 1961.
newspapers. Si Carlos Peña Romulo (14 Enero 1899, Camiling, Tarlac, Pilipinas -
When Japan attacked the Philippines in 1941, he became an aide-de- 15 Disyembre 1985, Maynila, Pilipinas) ay isang Pilipinong
camp to U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur on Corregidor Island, and his diplomatiko, politiko, sundalo, mamamahayag at manunulat. Sa
gulang na labing-anim, naging isang tagapagbalita siya at naging isang sumagot, "Masyadong maliit ang Pilipinas upang ilagay diyan. Kung
patnugot naman ng isang pahayagan sa gulang na dalawampu. ilalagay pa natin ang Pilipinas, magmumukha lamang iyong tuldok.”
Nagkaroon siya ng palimbagan sa gulang na talumpu’t dalawa. Isa rin At muling sumagot si Romulo, "Puwes, ilagay ang tuldok na iyon
siya sa nagtatag ng Boy Scouts of the Philippines. d’yan. Ngayon, ang nakikita nating tuldok sa tatak ng United Nations
Karerang pampolitika[baguhin | baguhin ang batayan] sa Pagitan ng Dagat Timog Tsina at Karagatang Pasipiko ay ang
tuldok na ipinalagay niya na kumakatawan sa Pilipinas.
Si Romulo ang naglingkod sa ika siyam na Pangulo ng
Pilipinas magmula kay Pangulong Manuel Quezon hanggang kay Noong 1948 sa Paris, Pransiya, sa ikatlong pangkalahatang
Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos bilang isang miyembro ng gabinete o pagpupulong ng United Nations, mariin n’yang tinutulan ang isang
bilang kinatawan ng Pilipinas sa Estados Unidosat sa United Nations. proposisyong ginawa ni Andrei Vishinsky, delegado ng noo'y Unyong
Sobyet. Minaliit at ininsulto nito ang kakayahan ni Romulo at sa kanya
Naglingkod rin si Romulo bilang Pangulo sa Ika-apat na ay sinabi, "Isa ka lamang maliit na tao mula sa isang maliit na bansa".
Pangkalahatang Pagpupulong ng Mga Nagkakaisang Bansa noong Sinagot ito ni Romulo ng "Tungkulin naming mga David sa mundong
1949 hanggang 1950 at naging pinuno rin ng Sangguniang ito na ipukol ang bato ng katotohanan sa mga mata ng mayayabang na
Pangkaligtasan ng U.N.. Naglingkod rin siya, kasama ni Goliath at pilitin silang magpakatao". Walang nagawa si Vishinsky
Heneral Douglas MacArthur sa Pasipiko ay naging kinatawan ng kundi ang maupo matapos marinig iyon.
Pilipinas sa Amerika at naging kauna-unahang Asyano na nagwagi ng
bantog na Pulitzer Prize sa Panulat noong 1942. Ayon sa Pulitzer Prize, Naging kandidato rin sa Romulo para sa Pangkalahatang Kalihim ng
nagwagi si Romulo ng Philippine Herald "dahil sa kanyang galing sa United Nations noong 1953 ngunit hindi nagwagi. Bumalik na lamang
pagmamasid at paghula sa pagsulong ng mga bansa sa siya sa Pilipinas at kumandidato sa pagkapangulo ng bansa sa ilalim ng
Malayong Silangang Asya noong sya ay bumiyahe sa mga nagulong Partido Liberal ngunit natalo rin ni Pangulong Quirino sa pagpipilian
lugar noon mula Hong Konghanggang Batavia." ng partido kung sino ang kanilang kandidato opisyal. Natalo rin si
Quirino ni Pangulong Ramon Magsaysay noong halalan na iyon.
Naglingkod rin siya bilang Pamahayang Kinatawan ng Pilipinas sa
Kapulungang Mambabatas ng Estados Unidos mula 1944 hanggang Noong Abril 1955, pinangunahan ni Romulo ang dalegasyon ng
1946. Siya ang pumirma noong umanib ang Pilipinas sa kasulatan ng Pilipinas sa Asian-African Conference sa Bandung, Indonesia.
pagtatatag ng United Nations noong 1946. Siya ang kalihim ng
Kagawaran ng Ugnayang Panlabas 1950 hanggang 1952 sa ilalim ni
Pangulong Elpidio Quirino, 1963 hanggang 1964 kay
Pangulong Diosdado Macapagal at 1968 hanggang 1984 kay
Pangulong Marcos. Isang manunulat, peryodista, propesor, sundalo, embahador, at
burukrata si Carlos P. Romulo (Kárlos Pi Ró·mu·lo). Ginawaran siyá
Sa kanyang karera sa United Nations, isa siyang malakas na ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining para sa Panitikan noong 1982.
tagapasalita patungkol sa karapatang pantao, kalayaan at pananakop.
Noong binalangkas at inayos ang tatak ng United Nations, tiningnan Sa mahabàng karera ni Romulo bilang opisyal ng gobyerno ay kabílang
niya ang tatak at nagtanong, "Nasaan ang Pilipinas diyan?" Si Senador ang kalihim ng Public Information and Public Relations sa gabinete ni
Warren Austin ng Amerika, pinuno ng kumite sa pagpili ng tatak ang Pangulong Manuel L. Quezon, Washington DC (1943-1944);
residenteng komisyoner ng Filipinas sa Estados Unidos (1944-1946); entry, and a digital gauge cluster with a trip computer that indicated
pinunò ng Philippine Mission sa Estados Unidos (1945-1954); kalihim 'miles to empty' and 'estimated time of arrival.'"
ng Kagawaran ng Ugnayang Panlabas, gabinete ni Pangulong Elpidio
Quirino (1950-1952); embahador ng Filipinas sa Estados Unidos,
(1952-1953, 1955-1962); kalihim ng Kagawaran ng Edukasyon at
pangulo ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (1962-1968); ministro ng
Kagawaran ng Ugnayang Panlabas; at kasapi ng Batasang Pambansa.
Naging kinatawan din siyá sa pagbubuo ng United Nations (UN) at
naging Asyanong pangulo ng Pangkalahatang Asamblea nitó noong
1949. Apat na ulit siyáng naglilingkod na pangulo ng UN Security
Council, makalawa noong 1957, sumunod noong 1980 at noong 1981.

Isa rin siyáng peryodista at nagkamit ng Premyong Pulitzer ng mga


Amerikano. Sumulat siyá ng umaabot sa 18 mga aklat, kabílang ang
nobelang The United; ang awtobiyograpiyang I Walked with Heroes;
ang alaala niyá sa digmaan sa I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother
America, at I See the Philippines Rise. Ginawaran siyá ng Hukbo ng
Estados Unidos ng Purple Heart at Silver Star para sa kaniyang
serbisyo noong Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig. Nagkamit din siyá
ng Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1965) at Rizal Pro Patria Award
(1971).

Isinilang siyá noong 14 Enero 1899 sa Camiling, Tarlac kina dating


gobernador Gregorio Romulo at Maria Peña. Ikinasal siyá nang
dalawang ulit, una kay Virginia Llamas, at ikalawa kay Beth Day. Nag-
aral siyá sa Manila High School at nakuha niyá ang kaniyang Batsilyer
sa Sining sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (UP) noong 1918 at ang kaniyang
Master of Arts sa Columbia University noong 1921. Namatay siyá
noong 15 Disyembre 1985. (RVR) (ed GSZ)

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