The author of Seven Thousand Islands for young people, and of several life histories of such as Nehru, Truman and the Soong sisters, gives us a smooth, readable biography of the grand leader. She traces Romulo's America hating childhood, his studies at Columbia, the growing sense of loyalty that, coupled with an international responsibility, helped him gain the Philippine independence and later to lend the U. N. new impetus as president of the General Assembly. Good popular reading.