A Warning in 1960 by Gen. Carlos P. Romulo

Canada Free Press ^ | 04/10/16 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

[Sean_Anthony]

The agit-prop machine, agitation and propaganda, has spent billions of dollars on hundreds of special schools which produced “armies of experts in brainwashing and subversion”

Readers Digest published an article in November 1960 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gen. Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985), a diplomat, statesman, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S., and President of the United Nations General Assembly (1949). He served in WWII with Gen. Douglas McArthur.

“America, Wake up!” was a critique of the United States of America and of its citizens whom he perceived and described as “strangely unmoved” and “meek” in the face of the “menace and humiliation” of the overt communist aggression and infiltration around the world during the Cold War era.

Even though Americans believe that all men are “equally entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Gen. Romulo warned that the “Red despotism of the universal Communist police state could come into being in our own lifetime.”

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Exactly what has come to pass.

[sparklite2]

He understood that Russia was determined to dominate the world

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They were. What he didn’t foresee was that the greatest threat to L, L, and the POH would come from inside the US, not outside. Turns out that communism is just a destination, and different forms of democratic government are different rates of speed in the race for freedom’s obliteration.

The reset button may be too bloody a remedy for modern souls, but the God of the Copybook Headings will eventually be heeded.

[buwaya]

Romulo had quite a career.
He was President Manuel Quezons PR man (first president of the Philippine Commonwealth, and the leading politician of the 1920s-30s). Later he was a PR asset for the US government, being ubiquitous as the US proxy vote at dozens of international conferences. He was mentioned or quoted every week at least, in the 1940s-60s, but was probably more valuable for his fantastic networking skills, the sort of fellow whom you could ask to go have a quiet talk with someone about to do something imprudent. He knew everyone, and everyone knew him.
Overall he was one of the postwar good guys, a reliable upholder of the Pax Americana. Not well known in the US these days and like pretty much everything Filipino, generally ignored.

[LoneStar42]

And now it’s taught in schools.

[mosesdapoet]

The Phillipines were scheduled to gain their independence from US in 1944. Prior to the Japanese attack he served under MacArthur who was organizing the Army of the Phillipines. I think he served as President of the Phillipines.

[Exit148]

I am of the age that well remembers Carlos Romulo. A man I greatly admired in those years with McArthur and when he was appointed to the UN. He stood out among those around him.

[buwaya]

Romulo never served in any elected office, because he was a lousy politician, and his English was way better than his Tagalog. He was appointed to all his official positions.

The Philippines was scheduled to get its independence in 1945.

Romulo was appointed an officer in the US Army, by MacArthur, but he was no soldier, and this was just a courtesy appointment. He was a newspaperman by trade, being publisher of the Manila Herald among others. His real skill was public (and private) relations, and its in that role that he served.
His role under MacArthur was as the representative of the Philippine government in exile.