Peña Romulo, Carlos

In 1918 he graduated from the University of Philippines, receiving a bachelor of arts degree, in 1921 - Columbia University, receiving a master's degree in arts in the field of pedagogy, in 1935 received an honorary doctorate degree in law from the University of Notre Dame , Indiana ; in 1946 - honorary doctorate degree in literature at Rollins College, Florida; in 1948 - honorary degree of Ph.D. at the University of Athens, Greece; and in April 1949, honorary doctorate in law at the University of the Philippines.

Since 1931, in journalistic work.

In 1937-1941. - a newspaper publisher in Manila,

in 1943-1944 - Secretary for Information and Public Relations in the Presidential Administration Manuel Quezon .

In 1944-1946 - Resident Commissioner of the Philippines in the United States of America,

in 1944-1945 - Acting Minister of State Education.

During the Second World War: the personal adjutant of General MacArthur . in September 1944 becomes a brigadier general. Participated in the landing at Leyte and the liberation of Manila.

Head of the Philippine delegation at the first session of the United Nations General Assembly in London (January-February 1946) and at all subsequent sessions. During the third regular session in Paris in September-December 1948 and in New York in April 1949, he was elected chairman of the special political and security committees. He was elected Chairman of the fourth regular session, which opened on October 20, 1949 in New York; signed the Bretton Woods Agreement from the Philippines in 1945. Philippine delegate to the United Nations Administration Conference on Aid and Post-War Reconstruction, held in March 1940 in Atlantic City ; in 1946 - head of the Philippine delegation at the London Conference on the destroyed areas. In March-April 1948, the head of the Philippine delegation and the Chairman of the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information, Geneva . In January 1949, a delegate from the Philippines at the Delhi Conference on Indonesia.

In 1950-1952 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines.

In 1952-1953 - Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In 1953, he resigned from the post of permanent representative to the UN and the ambassador to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections, but withdrew it in favor of Ramon Magsaysay .

In 1954, he was appointed Personal Ambassador of President Magsaysai in Washington and remained in this post under President Carlos Garcia . For much of the same period, he was the Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations.

In the years 1962-1968. - President of the University of the Philippines.

In the years 1968-1984. - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines.

Engaged in literary work. The author of theater plays and textbooks of the English language. Major works:

• "Ebb and Flow in the Far East" (Changing Tides in the Far East, 1928);
• “The Realistic Revaluation of the Philippine Problem” (A Realistic Re-examination of the Philippine Problem, 1934);
• "I saw the fall of the Philippines" (I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, 1942);
• Mother America (Mother America, 1943);
• "My brothers are Americans" (My Brother Americans, 1946);
• "See the Philippines rise" (See the Philippines Rise, 1946);
• Uniteds (The United, 1951);
• The Story of the Magsaysay (The Magsaysay Story, 1956);
• "Mission in Asia" (Mission to Asia, 1964).

In 1942, he received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for a series of articles on the pre-war trip to the countries of the Far East.

Married since 1924 Wife: Virginia Llamas. Children: Carlos Llamos Gregorio Vicente and Ricardo Hoses Roberto Rey.

He was buried in the Cemetery of Heroes in Tagig .

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