Carlos P

Carlos P.
Romulo, in full Carlos Peña Romulo, (born January 14, 1899, Camiling, Philippines—
died December 15, 1985, Manila), Philippine general, diplomat, and journalist known for his activities on
behalf of the Allies during World War II and his later work with the United Nations.
In 1931 Romulo was made editor in chief of TVT Publications, comprising three newspapers, one
in English, one in Spanish, and one in Tagalog (the second most prevalent language in the Philippines). In
1937 he became publisher of another chain of newspapers.
When Japan attacked the Philippines in 1941, he became an aide-de-camp to U.S. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur on Corregidor Island, and his broadcasts became widely known as the “Voice of Freedom.”
After Japan captured Corregidor, Romulo went with MacArthur to Australia and then joined the
Philippine government-in-exile of Pres. Manuel Quezon in Washington, D.C., as secretary of information.
Romulo was president of the General Assembly of the UN (1949–50) and in 1950 became
secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippines. In 1952 he was named ambassador to the United States.
No longer satisfied with the politics of the incumbent Liberal Party, he decided in 1953 to run for the
presidency of the Philippines on a third-party ticket, but he withdrew to become campaign manager for
the successful Nacionalista Party candidate, Ramon Magsaysay. At the Bandung Conference of Afro-
Asian countries in 1955, he criticized the tyranny of both communist rule and Western colonialism.
Carlos P. Romulo (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.
I see the Philippine rise(1946),
I saw the fall of the Philippines(1943) - an eye-witness account of the battle of the Philippines
I walked with heroes(1961)- These are autobiographical reminiscences from a rich life of a man
who considers that his greatest honor was the Freedom Award.
Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet,
essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 6, 1916. Arcellana already had
ambitions of becoming a writer early in his childhood. His actual writing, however, started when he
became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana continued
writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Later on he received a
Rockefeller Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and at the Breadloaf
Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957. He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino
short story in English
Arcellana died in 2002. As a National Artist, he received a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga
Bayani.
Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)-
The man who could be poe(1932)-
The mats. The story talks about a typical Filipino family culture, that portrays the close family
relationship, respect for the elders and remembering the family members who passed away.
The flowers of may(1951). There were no memories of snow covered countryside in the consciousness
of many Filipinos in 1951 but there are memories of the beautiful flowers of May, of May in the
churches of Manila and in the old walled city. The narrator thinks of his sister Victoria who died in May.
The narrator speaks of the great depth of pain of his father, his morher's perhaps futile attempt to
comfort his father over the loss. He speaks of many dead from his family. The story is very well set in
place but the concerns are universal.
about how life can be turned into a charnel house,a great city into a dark necropolis
The yellow shawl (1944)- process why the girl acts the way she does. The traumatic experience of
continually being haunted by the anguish and sufferings of her mother from the Japanese soldiers, and,
as insinuated in the story, as a Comfort Woman is shown in the film. But the similarity ends there. There
is variation in the scenes and the settings. Short film

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I see the Philippine rise(1946),

The man who could be poe(1932)-

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