23rd August 1944. Sam Rayburn (left), Speaker of the House Of Representatives, administers the oath of office to Colonel Carlos P. Romulo, newly appointed Resident Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth. Representative C. Jasper Bell of the state of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, looks on. Colonel Romulo is also Secretary of Information and Public Relations in the Philippine War Cabinet, reorganised by President Sergio Osmena who succeeded the late President Manuel Quezon.

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