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General ROMULO

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1946-09-24

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1951-09-24

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1. “Our country may thus be regarded as a bridge between two worlds, among the first of many that must be erected to make them one. I speak of two worlds, and I speak of a division that is more than merely geographical. It is an easy matter to look at the globe and indicate the longitudes that separate the East from the West. Here, one might say, are the lands of Asia, the Near East and Africa, inhabited by peoples belonging to a great diversity of races and cultural patterns. And here are the lands of Europe and the Americas, inhabited by peoples of related stock whose cultural pattern is, in the main, homogeneous. But geography and race alone do not explain the bifurcation of the world. Nor does culture by itself explain it, since culture is essentially an end-product of the historical process.”

   1946-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 1 (1946)

2. “The Philippine Republic is both consanguineous and coeval with the United Nations. The blood that the Filipino people shed for their freedom was shed likewise for the common victory. Their stake in the United Nations is the stake of an identical destiny, of shared anxiety and of hope and endeavour. By the circumstances of our birth as a free and independent State, we are committed to the aims and purposes of the United Nations. The Philippine Republic has been the first beneficiary of the triumph of democracy. It has been established under a constitution which renounces war as an instrument of national policy. It is the child of the marriage of the East and the West, heir to the traditional ways and aspirations of the one and to the social and political institutions of the other.”

   1946-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 1 (1946)

3. “Peace is not built with words. Peace must be written in the human heart. We are not here to make the peace, but to build for peace. We are not here to avenge the injuries of the past, but to fulfil humanity’s hopes for the future. We are not here to reap and divide the harvest of victory, but to make ready the hearts and minds of men for the seeds of peace. The agenda before us outlines the shape and magnitude of our task. It reflects the infinite variety of the problems that are involved in planning for the future peace and progress of the world. To the prompt and successful completion of this task, I pledge the enthusiastic cooperation of the Philippine delegation. We represent a nation that was recently born to the recovered freedom of the post-war world, the first-born State of the atomic age.”

   1946-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 1 (1946)