[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Carlos Romulo

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You're right, Jaime. I'm sure it was Carlos Romulo. Here's a story from  
wikipedia:
 
. In 1948 in Paris, France, at the third UN General Assembly, he strongly  
disagreed with a proposal made by the _Soviet_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet)  delegation headed by _Andrei Vishinsky_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
 
He also had a comeback about being a dime among nickels. 
 
Twice between 1952 and 1954, he expanded my world in a wonderful way It's  
amazing to me now that such a great man was on the high school  assembly 
circuit. That couldn't happen now. They're too busy testing.
 
Thanks,
Jann
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/29/2012 7:24:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
svesjaime at aol.com writes:

Jann, that might have been  Carlos Romulo, a squirt of a dynamo who Truman 
called "the President of the  World".  He was the first President of the UN 
General Assembly.  He  wore elevated shoes and apocryphal stories abound of 
him literally standing on  copies of the Encyclopedia Britanica!  He was a 
diplomat  extraordinaire!

j'aime la  vie

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