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Book I Walked With Heroes

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  • Author : Carlos P. Rómulo
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2016-07-26
  • ISBN : 1786259400
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book I Walked With Heroes written by Carlos P. Rómulo and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Walked with Heroes is an autobiographical book written by Carlos P. Romulo, a former Philippine general, journalist, poet, story writer, diplomat, former resident commissioner to Washington, D.C., former Philippine ambassador to the United States, and former President of the United Nations General Assembly. In I Walked with Heroes, Romulo personally reviewed his boyhood, early life, school days, and career in which he presented the facts and events with "frankness, intimacy, sense of person-to-person communication". It included Romulo's memories of his parents and the first time he met the Americans in the person of soldiers stationed in Camiling, his native town in Tarlac. The time was during the Philippine War of Independence. The nameless soldier taught Romulo and other Filipino boys how to read and write in English using Edward Baldwin's Primer. Romulo also narrated his life in Manila when he was both a morning-time student and an evening-time news reporter. A part of the book mentioned how Romulo was praised by then President of the Philippine Senate Manuel L. Quezon after writing a news item against Quezon's political opponents. In the pages of the autobiography, the reader would find 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 revealed Romulo's "unfailing faith in mankind".

Book I Saw the Fall of the Philippines

Download or read book I Saw the Fall of the Philippines written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romulo

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  • Author : Carlos Peña Romulo
  • Publisher : Praeger Publishers
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780275927295
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Romulo written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable memoir, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985), the Philippine war hero and impassioned diplomat who was one of the signers of the United Nations Charter in 1945, re-creates the heady spirit of the early days of the United Nations. . . . A leading spokesman for newly independent third world countries, he lobbied successfully to get the right of colonial countries to independence included in the Charter. "The New York Times Book Review" In his fascinating volume, Carlos P. Romulo, retired Foreign Minister of the Philippines and first Asian President of the United Nations, describes the development of that organization from its founding in San Francisco in 1945, when he signed its charter, to his farewell speech to the General Assembly in the fall of 1983. Related in the form of personal memories and impressions, the facts and dates in his narrative have been thoroughly checked and corroborated by his wife and co-author so that they blend integrally with the broader fabric of United Nations history. Not only is this a personal memoir but also an accurate and valuable historical account of a critical period in the history of the world. The volume will certainly be of immense interest to readers concerned with the conduct of international diplomacy, East-West relations, or relations with Third World countries.

Book Mother America   A Living Story of Democracy

Download or read book Mother America A Living Story of Democracy written by Carlos Romulo and published by Scott Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOTHER AMERKA A Living Story of Democracy BY CARLOS P. ROMULO DOUBLEDAY. DORAN COMPANY. INC. GARDEN CITY. NEW YORK 1943 Press, GARDB ci Y, N. T u, 8. A. CI, COPYRIGHT, 1943 BY CARIES P. ROMULO ALL RIGHTS kESfiRVED FIRST EDITION Dedicated To the Filipino soldiers who fought and died beside Americans on Bataan and Corregidor in defense of the Philippines, and to their brothers in the Far East the one billion inarticulate Orientals who are daring to lift their eyes toward the dazzimg hope of freedom. AUTHORS NOTE THE FIRST FOUR DOCUMENTS included in the Appendix . are the Magna Charta of the Philippines. They show the im portant steps in the evolution of the Filipino people to self government. That the Filipinos believed in democracy and thought along republican lines even before the advent of American rule in the Philippines is shown by I The Con stitution approved by the Philippine Republic in 1899. PREFATORY NOTE THIS is a living story of democracy. It is political science per sonalized. Americas work in the Philippines is a masterpiece in human relationship because it is human. I write it as a Filipino who is one of the beneficiaries of Philip pine-American collaboration. I write it so that America may know what she achieved in the Philippines. I write it also for the world that subject races may be informed of how the Filipino people in creasingly fought for their freedom, and that sovereign nations may profit by the example of America. For America was the only sov ereign nation in the Far East that in its hour of danger was able to count on the loyalty of its subject people. I write as a private citizen of the Philippines. The views expressed in this book are mine and are notofficial. I presume to speak for no government But I am convinced I bespeak the sentiments of all my Filipino comrades-in-arms who fought in Bataan and Corregidor. We know why and what we fought for there. My acknowledgment goes to President Manuel L. Quezon, who granted me leave of absence without pay from the Philippine Army and later placed me on inactive military status to General Douglas MacArthur, for having sent me to America from Australia on special detail to Harold Matson, for valuable advice and help to Evelyn Wells, my loyal friend, for research and co-operation and to Solomon Arnaldo of the office of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, for the appendices. I must not forget to dedicate a few words of appreciation to the memory of the late Very Reverend Father James M. Drought, Vicar General of the Maryknoll Mission, with whom, before his untimely death, I discussed various portions of this book. CARLOS P. ROMULO CONTENTS PAGE Introduction. Why America xi CHAPTER I What Imperialism Means to the Far East ... i II The Oriental Looks to Democracy 7 III The Philippines Under Imperialism .... 12 IV Revolution Against Spain 19 V Revolution Against America 25 VI America in the Philippines 31 VII Material Advantages 37 VIII Of Higher Values ......... 41 IX His Ways Are Peculiar 46 X The White Man in the Orient,54 XI The Japanese Mind 65 XII Our Third Fight for Freedom 72 XIII Details of Democracy, 80 XIV Problems of Other People 91 XV Countries in Jeopardy, 107 XVI Voices of the Far East 114 XVII Pattern for the Pacific 123 xi zu CONTENTS CHAPTER PACE XVIII Position of the Philippines 134 XIX Spiritual Pattern 140 APPENDICES I The Constitution of the Philippine Republic . . 147 IIThe Jones Act 163 HI The Tydings-McDuffie Independence Act With the Amendment. 181 IV Constitution of the Philippines 206 V The Mind of a New Commonwealth 228

Book Forty Years

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  • Author : Carlos Peña Romulo
  • Publisher : Praeger
  • Release : 1986-06-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Forty Years written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical account of the author's service in the United Nations 1945-1983 and of his subsequent service as Foreign Minister of the Philippines.

Book I See the Philippines Rise

Download or read book I See the Philippines Rise written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Meaning of Bandung

Download or read book The Meaning of Bandung written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretation of the conference, by the delegate from the Philippines.

Book The Romulo Reader

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  • Author : Carlos Peña Romulo
  • Publisher : Bookmark Publishing (NY)
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Romulo Reader written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by Bookmark Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Man Off Bataan

Download or read book Last Man Off Bataan written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mr  United Nations

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  • Author : Carlos Peña Romulo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Mr United Nations written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusade in Asia

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  • Author : Carlos Peña Romulo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Crusade in Asia written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Faces of Exile

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  • Author : Augusto Fauni Espiritu
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780804751216
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Five Faces of Exile written by Augusto Fauni Espiritu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Faces of Exile is the first transnational history of Asian American intellectuals. Espiritu explores five Filipino American writers whose travels, literary works, and political reflections transcend the boundaries of nations and the categories of "Asia" and "America."

Book THE MAGSAYSAY STORY

Download or read book THE MAGSAYSAY STORY written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Am a Filipino

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  • Author : Nicole Ponseca
  • Publisher : Artisan
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 1579658822
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book I Am a Filipino written by Nicole Ponseca and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filipino food is having its moment. Sour, sweet, funky, fatty, bright, rich, tangy, bold—no wonder adventurous eaters like Anthony Bourdain consider Filipino food “the next big thing.” But so do more mainstream food lovers—Vogue declares it “the next great American cuisine.” Filipinos are the second-largest Asian population in America, and finally, after enjoying Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese food, we’re ready to embrace Filipino food, too. Written by trailblazing restaurateurs Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad, I Am a Filipino is a cookbook of modern Filipino recipes that captures the unexpected and addictive flavors of this vibrant and diverse cuisine. The techniques (including braising, boiling, and grilling) are simple, the ingredients are readily available, and the results are extraordinary. There are puckeringly sour adobos with meat so tender you can cut it with a spoon, along with other national dishes like kare-kare (oxtail stew) and kinilaw (fresh seafood dressed in coconut milk and ginger). There are Chinese-influenced pansit (noodle dishes) and lumpia (spring rolls); Arab-inflected cuisine, with its layered spicy curries; and dishes that reflect the tastes and ingredients of the Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans who came to the Philippines and stayed. Included are beloved fried street snacks like ukoy (fritters), and an array of sweets and treats called meryenda. Filled with suitably bold and bright photographs, I Am a Filipino is like a classic kamayan dinner—one long, festive table piled high with food. Just dig in!

Book The Voice of Bataan

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  • Author : Carlos Bulosan
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-02
  • ISBN : 1789127920
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book The Voice of Bataan written by Carlos Bulosan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II. It began in January 1942, when forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, and culminated in the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942. The present volume, which was first published in 1943, is a collection of poetry by Filipino-American novelist and poet Carlos Bulosan, written during the Second World War. It is his tribute to the soldiers who died fighting in the Battle of Bataan. “Poems of Bataan—of that ‘small island of ashes and dead bodies,’ of the soldiers that resisted to the last man, of the hope of freedom once again. Impassioned lyrical expression of that struggle and the refusal to be conquered”—Kirkus Review

Book Inside the Palace

Download or read book Inside the Palace written by Beth Day Romulo and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Phillippines.

Book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

Download or read book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos written by Primitivo Mijares and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's Foreword This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me. I wrote this volume very, very slowly. 1 could have done with it In three months after my defection from the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on February 20.1975. Instead, I found myself availing of every excuse to slow it down. A close associate, Marcelino P. Sarmiento, even warned me, "Baka mapanis 'yan." (Your book could become stale.)While I availed of almost any excuse not to finish the manuscript of this volume, I felt the tangible voices of a muted people back home in the Philippines beckoning to me from across the vast Pacific Ocean. In whichever way I turned, I was confronted by the distraught images of the Filipino multitudes cryingout to me to finish this work, lest the frailty of human memory -- or any incident a la Nalundasan - consign to oblivion the matters I had in mind to form the vital parts of this book. It was as if the Filipino multitudes and history itself were surging in an endless wave presenting a compelling demand on me toSan Francisco, California perpetuate the personal knowledge I have gained on the infamous machinations of Ferdinand E. Marcos and his overly ambitious wife, Imelda, that led to a day of infamy in my country, that Black Friday on September 22, 1972, when martial law was declared as a means to establish history's first conjugal dictatorship. The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills. This is a book for which so much has been offered and done by Marcos and his minions so that it would never see the light of print. Now that it is off the press. I entertain greater fear that so much more will be done to prevent its circulation, not only in the Philippines but also in the United States.But this work now belongs to history. Let it speak for itself in the context of developments within the coming months or years. Although it finds great relevance in the present life of the present life of the Filipinos and of Americans interested in the study of subversion of democratic governments by apparently legal means, this work seeks to find its proper niche in history which mustinevitably render its judgment on the seizure of government power from the people by a lame duck Philippine President.If I had finished this work immediately after my defection from the totalitarian regime of Ferdinand and Imelda, or after the vicious campaign of the dictatorship to vilify me in July-August. 1975, then I could have done so only in anger. Anger did influence my production of certain portions of the manu-script. However, as I put the finishing touches to my work, I found myself expurgating it of the personal venom, the virulence and intemperate language of my original draft.Some of the materials that went into this work had been of public knowledge in the Philippines. If I had used them, it was with the intention of utilizing them as links to heretofore unrevealed facets of the various ruses that Marcos employed to establish his dictatorship.Now, I have kept faith with the Filipino people. I have kept my rendezvous with history. I have, with this work, discharged my obligation to myself, my profession of journalism, my family and my country.I had one other compelling reason for coming out with this work at the great risks of being uprooted from my beloved country, of forced separation from my wife and children and losing their affection, and of losing everything I have in my name in the Philippines - or losing life itself. It is that I wanted to makea public expiation for the little influence that I had . . . .(more inside)