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Biography of Carlos P. RómuloName: Carlos P. RómuloBirth Date: January 14, 1899 Death Date: 1985 Place of Birth: Manila, Phillippines Nationality: Phillipine Gender: Male Occupations: diplomat, international diplomat, writer, journalist Carlos P. Rómulo Carlos P. Rómulo (1899-1985) was an author and the foremost diplomat of the Philippines. He was the only Filipino journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first Asian to serve as president of the UN General Assembly (1949). He also gained prominence as America's most trusted Asian spokesman.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 …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…President Marcos to the post of secretary of foreign affairs. Rómulo was the recipient of more than a hundred honorary doctorates, awards, and medals, given by American and Asian universities, organizations, and foreign governments.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). Further Reading Romulo's autobiography, with Beth Day Romulo, is Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN (1986). His other books also are informative, since most of them are autobiographical in some sense. Full-length works on him are Grace S. Youkey (pseudonym: Cornelia Spencer), Romulo: Voice of Freedom (1953); Romulo figures prominently in Manuel Luis Quezon, The Good Fight (1946); Teodoro A. Agoncillo, The Fateful Years: Japan's Adventure in the Philippines, 1941-45 (2 vols., 1965). |