The Rotary Balita no. 614 (February 10, 1948)

No efforts of ours can ever do justice to the supreme manifestation of unexcelled eloquence that Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo so generously treated us to, the Thursday he agreed to be our guest speaker. It was Ladies’ Day at the Champagne Room, but for once, the ladies were not the drawing cards. Fresh from Delhi, and all that Delhi implies in these hectic days of SEA and Secretary Kangleon’s communism, Rotarian Rommy blasted away at imperialist mongrels, who would chain the rest of humanity that a few white men might wallow in the luxurious vat of their Kipling-ic “burden”. Cleverly showing the vital significance that the Indonesian problem has over the gunpowder situation of the world of today, he said that upon the outcome of the Indonesian drama will rest the prestige of the United Nations and, hence, the peace of the world. All in all, his speech was a pretty ominous warning, but because everyone was too busy holding his breath listening to the flow of golden oratory falling with the magic of his voice (eek! Mama, what has the man done to us”), there inevitably followed the thunderous applause that after all was an inadequate tribute to the “‘most eloquent speaker of the United Nations”. As he himself would have us quoting: “all nations, great and small.”