CARLOS P.

ROMULO

NATIONAL ARTIST FOR LITERATURE - 1982

• His career spanned 50 years of
public service as educator, soldier,
university president, journalist and
diplomat.

• He was the 1st Asian president of UN

General Assembly and the Philippine
ambassador to US

• He was a reporter at 16, newspaper

editor at 20, publisher at 32.
His broadcasts during the Japanese
colonization was known as the VOICE
OF FREEDOM

• The only Asian to win Pulitzer Prize for

Journalism for a seies of articles
predicting the outbreak of World War II
 IN THE PAGES OF THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE READER
WOULD F IND THAT ROMULO
WAS COMFORTABLE IN
EMPLOYING HUMOR SUCH AS
"TELLING JOKES ON HIMSELF",
PARTICULARLY IN REFERENCE TO
HIS HEIGHT TO MAKE THE
READER ENJOY HIS WRITING. THE
BOOK R EVEALED ROMULO'S
"U NFAILING FAITH IN MANKIND".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_Heroes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%9342)
 "I AM A FILIPINO" IS AN ESSAY THAT
UNDERLINES THE BURNING DESIRE OF THE
FILIPINOS FOR INDEPENDENCE. IT STARTS
WITH A QUICK WALK THROUGH THE HISTORY
OF THE NATION AND CULMINATES WITH A
I AM A FILIPINO
PARAGRAPH THAT STATES "I AM A FILIPINO
BORN TO FREEDOM." ROMULO MENTIONS
THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS A CHILD RESULTING
FROM THE MARRIAGE OF THE EAST AND THE
WEST AND DESERVES TO TAKE A PROUD STAND
IN THE WORLD. HIS CALL FOR FREEDOM IS
BORN FROM THE RIGHTS OF THE FILIPINOS TO
BE PROUD OF THEIR INHERITANCE AND HE
ANNOUNCES THAT HE WILL NOT FIND PEACE
UNTIL THE DREAM OF FREEDOM IS ACHIEVED
FOR HIS PEOPLE. ROMULO WAS A FILPINO
STATESMAN, DIPLOMAT, AUTHOR AND
JOURNALIST WHO SERVED UNDER EIGHT
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS AND WAS THE
COUNTRY'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED
STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS. "I AM A
FILIPINO" IS OFTEN CHOSEN BY STUDENTS FOR
ELOCUTION CONTESTS AND IS ONE OF THE
MOST FAMOUS NATIONALIST MANIFESTOS IN
THE WORLD.

https://www.reference.com/world-view/significance-am-filipino-carlos-p-
romulo-feb9b3b05926fe0b
 DEDICATED TO THE FILIPINO
SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT AND
DIED BESIDE AMERICANS ON
BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR IN
DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES,
AND TO THE IR BROTHE RS IN
THE FAR EAST THE ONE
BILLION INARTICULATE
ORIENTALS WHO ARE DARING
TO LIFT THEIR EYES TOWARD
THE DAZZIMG HOPE OF
FREEDOM.

https://archive.org/stream/motheramericaali006120mbp/mothe
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 M Y B OT H E R A M E R I C AN S P R O V I D E
A N E NT E RTA I N I NG A C C O U N T O F T H E
A UT HOR ’ S H E C T I C B U T G E N E R A L LY
GR AT I F Y IN G E X PE R I E N C E A S A
L E C T U R E R I N T H I S C O U N T RY I N
WART IM E . PA RT O F I T S P E R M A N E N T
S IGN I F I C A N C E L I E S I N T H E
PORT R AYA L O F O N E M A N ’ S
R E AC T I O N TO T H E G R O W I N G
M AGNIT U D E OF T H E A M E R I C A N WA R
E F FORT. I T C O N TA I N S N O V I L L A I N S
B UT MAN Y H E R O E S . I T B R E AT H E S I N
AL M OS T E V E RY PAG E G E N E R AL
R OMUL O ’ S C O N V I C T I O N T H AT T H E
T W O NAT I O N S O W E M U C H TO E A C H
OT HE R A N D M U S T C O N T I N U E TO
M AIN TA I N T H E M O S T C O R D I A L
R E L AT I O N S H I P.

https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/articleabstract/15/4/464/72354/Review?
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