Carlos P. Romulo was a Filipino statesman who made significant contributions to the United Nations. He worked with Eleanor Roosevelt on drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. During the selection of the UN seal, Romulo insisted on including the Philippines, which is represented as a small dot on the current seal. He was honored for his career as the Philippines' greatest diplomat of the 20th century.

1. “ I WANT THAT DOT!”

2. Carlos P. Romulo He was born on Jan. 14, 1899, in Manila; but his well-to-do parents lived in Camiling, Tarlac.

3. With the outbreak of World War II in 1941, Rómulo joined the staff of General Douglas MacArthur as press relations officer.

4. He was a Filipino diplomat, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was the co-founder of the Boys Scouts of the Philippines.

5. Romulo was a member of the United Nation’s Human Rights Commission (created in June 1946), whose ambitious task was to draft a bill of human rights.

6. News clipping entitled “World Bill of Rights,” wherein United Nations U.S. delegate, Eleanor Roosevelt, credits Romulo with having written more than half of the international declaration on human rights. The Evening News January 23, 1948.

7. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, represents the most important contribution the Human Rights Commission has ever made to the global advancement of human rights.

8. In 1948 in Paris, France, at the third UN General Assembly, he strongly disagreed with a proposal made by the Soviet delegation headed by Andrei Vishinsky, who challenged his credentials by insulting him with this quote: "You are just a little man from a little country." In return, Romulo 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.

9. During the selection of the UN's official seal, he looked over the seal-to-be and asked, "Where is the Philippines?" US Senator Warren Austin, head of the selection committee, explained, "It's too small to include. If we put the Philippines, it would be no more than a dot." "I want that dot!" insisted Romulo.

10. Today, a tiny dot between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea can be found on the UN seal.

11. He died, at 86, in Manila, December 15 1985 and was buried in the Heroes Cemetery. He was honoured as the Philippine's greatest diplomat in the 20th Century.

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