Who is Carlos P. Romulo?
During January 14, 1899 in Intramuros, Manila, a
woman delivered a baby who nobody expected to be one of the Philippines’
greatest diplomats in the 20th century. His name is Carlos Peña
Romulo.
Little Carlos grew up in the town of Camiling in the
province of Tarlac. He was a son of a guerilla fighter of the Philippine
revolutionary government under late president Emilio Aguinaldo during the
Filipino-American War, and also was able to experience the brutality during the
time of Americans when his grandfather was water tortured by American soldiers
and that left an impression on him for being a nationalist.
He became a reporter at the age of
16. He became a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He
was also the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. He also served as a general in the US Army and the
Philippine Army. As an educator, he became university president. And last but
not the least, he is most known for being the President of the UN General
Assembly.
He was also named as one of the
Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other honors and
honorary degrees. His most famous published work is “I Am A Filipino” which
first appeared in The Philippines Herald in 1941, a month before he wrote the
first series of eight articles that made him won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for
journalism, where the famous lines “I am Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not
rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance – for myself and
my children and my children’s children – forever.”
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