Word: albizu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports' from San Juan since then have reported Albizu "quite ill." James H. Howe '29, now a Washington attorney who lead the group that revised the Puerto Rican government five years ago, believes that most Puerto Ricans consider him pretty much on his last legs. There have even been reports that Albizu is at the stage where he is advocating that Puerto Rico build a big secret navy and drive American from the seas...
...facts remain that Albizu is once again free to deal with his Nationalist aides. He was re-elected President of the legally unrecognized Nationalist Party in 1948. To shrug off his power and infllence because of near-insanity is to overlook his increased menace because of this very condition...
...would take a near mad-man to issue the statement that Albizu did in reference to the House shooting. He called it an act of "sublime heroism," and added that Lolita Lebron and two nationalist "gentlemen of the race who accompanied her . . . have served notice on the United States engorged with its atomic bombs, that duty obliges it to respect independance of all nations; to respect the independance of Puerto Rico...
...Albizu lives today a quarter of a mile from La Fortaleza, suspiciously forcing his sides to transact their business with him through a peephole in his apartment door. His name is still the rally word for Island and mainland nationalist fanatics. Lolita Lebron went to great pains to include the following note in her purse which was made public when she was arrested in the gallery of the House...
...take responsibility for all . . . I state forever that the United States of America are betraying their sacred principles of mankind in their continuous subjugation of my people, violating their rights to be a free nation in their barbarous torture of our apostle of independence, Don Pedro Albizu y Campos...