A Filipino snatch America's Pulitzer Prize

Filipino Carlos P. Romulo, who became President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1949, was awarded the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence (now called International Reporting) while working as a reporter for the Philippines Herald. The selection committee cited the value of "his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia."

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