Word: albizu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must challenge one of your facts. There were no political prisoners in the Insular Penitentiary on October 28 or at any previous date. The government of Puerto Rice has never sentenced anyone to jail for a political crime. As it correctly appears in your column, when Albizu was convicted in 1937 it was by a Federal court. He was sent to a Federal penitentiary at Atlanta from which both he and his companions have since been freed...
...show was over. Mufioz Marin soberly took note of the "tragic and useless" death of 31 Puerto Ricans. Said he: "A government founded on votes cannot be destroyed." Albizu Campos and his diehards had been joined, he said, only by the island's Communists, ready as always to promote chaos. Albizu Campos himself faced trial on charges of attempted murder and insurrection against the Puerto Rican government...
Defiance & Tear Gas. The attempted assassination of President Truman brought swift action from Mufioz Marin. Crying "This is lunatic gangsterism," he ordered Albizu Campos brought in at all costs. Police threw tear gas into Albizu's beleaguered headquarters. From the balcony, Albizu waggled a soiled white towel on the end of a broom in token of surrender...
...police station later that day, his hair standing out in greying spikes, his eyes afire, Albizu Campos was still playing the role of Puerto Rican liberator. "The nation," he proclaimed, "is passing through its glorious transfiguration...
...week's end the island's calm was restored and Puerto Ricans showed authoritatively what they thought of Albizu Campos' Nationalist terrorism. In even greater numbers than in the election year of 1948, they turned out to register for the vote on a constitution reaffirming self-rule, but keeping for themselves the rights and privileges of U.S. citizens...