UN General Assembly
1950

60. Secondly, to our recently retired President, His Excellency Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, permanent representative and chairman of the Philippine delegation, we also extend our congratulations on his completion of a most successful term of office. During his incumbency, he wonderfully endeared himself to all his colleagues by his geniality, dignified bearing, simplicity of manner, powerful intellectual capacity, great forensic eloquence coupled with his wide breadth of knowledge of parliamentary rules of procedure and diplomatic precedence. General Romulo certainly is a great national figure in his own country, but, in my humble opinion, he is also one of the outstanding statesmen of the world.