Word: albizu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. A. Cecil Snyder, 51, Baltimore-born Chief Justice (1953-57) of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court, who helped draft Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, as district attorney convicted (1936) Nationalist Party Boss Albizu Campos of trying to overthrow the U.S. Government; of a heart attack; near San Juan...
...Arnulfo Arias, M.D. '25, prominent suspect in connection with last Sunday's assassination of Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon, is the second Harvard graduate to have attempted a Central American revolution by violence. Pedro Albizu y Campos '16, Puerto Rican Nationalist, was an organizer of the shootings in the House of Representatives last March...
Lolita's "wise master," crackpot Nationalist Chief Albizu Campos, called the attack on Congress "an act of sublime heroism." The Harvard-educated Albizu, who inspired the 1950 plots against Harry Truman and Munoz, had been released from prison last September because of his increasing mental deterioration. (His followers do not seem to notice that he is mad.) When police set out to arrest him at his apartment in downtown San Juan last week, they were greeted by a blast of bullets and homemade Molotov cocktails that splattered on the cobblestone street. The police drew back, began a two-hour...
...second-floor apartment, the police found Albizu, clad in blue pajamas, his legs wrapped in wet towels (he is under the impression that the U.S. is bombarding them with death rays), cowering on the floor with two women friends...
...Albizu & Co., products of a bitter and seemingly hopeless past, are being isolated from their countrymen by progress. But partly because of their complete political failure they are, for the present, a serious terrorist menace, a "clear and present danger" against which the Puerto Rican authorities took the obvious action...