He also held the UP Presidency in one of his breaks at the diplomatic service. In an account, where Soviet Delegate leader Andrei Vishinsky belittled the already petite Filipino by saying “You are just a little man from a little country.”, in which he replied “It is the duty of the little Davids of this world to fling the pebbles of truth in the eyes of the blustering Goliaths and force them to behave!”, leaving Vishinsky with nothing left to do but sit down. He represented the Philippines to the world in the United Nations and eventually becoming the very first, the first Filipino and the first Asian to preside in the General Assembly.
He held several departments like education, information, public instruction and most remembered, the foreign affairs.
His work at the Philippine Herald will give him a Pulitzer, the first for a Filipino and also for an Asian. He started his public life as a reporter at 16, a news editor at 20 and publisher at 32.
His political and diplomatic career spanned 8 Presidents, from Manuel Quezon until Ferdinand Marcos, in a way he saw big changes in the Philippine Landscape in its entirety. Romulo seemed to be a restless man in his 86 years. What is people power really but the people being sufficiently roused by things that they demand to act, they demand to be heard, they demand to be followed? Why can’t we use that to fight corruption such as by shaming the corrupt as they have never been shamed before, by making them objects of contempt rather than ninongs and ninangs in baptisms and weddings? Why can’t we use that to fight poverty and illiteracy, with the same alacrity with which people came to fight off the ravages of “Ondoy” on Metro Manila, with the same fire with which the volunteers campaigned for the opposite of Gloria? Why can’t we use it as a force not just to topple down a tyranny but to build a nation? Just today, in time for the 25th anniversary of the People Power revolution, the City of Manila unveiled the statue of another EDSA People Power key figure: Jaime Cardinal Sin. Kalaw was named after Teodoro Kalaw, a former head librarian of the National Library. The National Library was inaugurated.Īlso, the street TM. Thus, on the Centennial of Rizal in June 19, 1961. When the Rizal Centennial Comission was formed, it was planned that the National Library be erected near Rizal to tribute Rizal as an advocate of education. The library after the war will move to several locations more before finding its permanent home near Rizal Park. The Second World War will totally destroy some of the collections of the Library, including the remains of the Supremo Bonifacio either by fires, destruction of the building and looting that happened after the Battle of Manila. Then they moved to the Legislative Building (it was originally solely for the Library). The Library had located itself in Calle Rosario (now Quintin Paredes) in Binondo before it moved to the Hotel de Oriente nearby. It was abolished during the American Takeover.īut the Library was revived in the American period as the American Circulating Library (a private library), subsequently the collection will be donated to the government, where the government in 1909 would receive the collection with Act 1935, thus the Library will be recognized as a government institution.
It first existed as the Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas in the Spanish Times housed in the Intendencia, then transferring in Quiapo in the site in which the Mosque currently stands. Kalaw avenue in Luneta, the National Library has a long history dating from the Spanish Period and is the repository of some of the country’s cultural jewels, including the manuscripts of the Noli and Fili, which is currently hidden in a double combination vault.
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