Vivid Memory

Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo last week received a friendly letter from former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew. Grew wanted Romulo to sponsor a new university in Japan. In his reply, Romulo pointed out that hundreds of Philippine schools are still in ruins made by the Japanese invaders, declined Grew's request. A few days earlier, Romulo had told a story to newsmen which threw a sharp light on his refusal. The incident, Romulo had explained, was one of his most vivid memories of the war.

Just before the Allied invasion of Leyte, Japanese soldiers had gone to the home of his 80-year-old mother in Manila to see if she was receiving letters from her son, who was wartime aide to General MacArthur. During the questioning, both of Mrs. Romulo's legs were broken by blows from a Japanese rifle butt, and she was hopelessly crippled until her death in 1948.

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