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@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