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...soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...
Cape & Hamburg. Up to that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...
...Rican villages clad in flowing cape and Homburg. After President Roosevelt's visit in 1934, he shrieked: "Cowards, you should have received Roosevelt with bullets but you greeted him with flowers." In 1936 one of his terrorists assassinated the island police chief. As a result of the murder, Albizu was arrested for conspiring to overthrow
When he returned to Puerto Rico in 1947, Albizu found that he was a back number. He spent much of his time talking bitterly to a few followers at the mountain home of Blanca Canales Torresola, cousin of the man shot dead last week on the steps of Blair-Lee House. Most Puerto Ricans had come to realize that independence, with the accompanying loss of tariff advantages and tax refunds, would be economic suicide. And in recent years, Puerto Rico had won more & more self-rule. Only two years ago Puerto Ricans had elected their own governor for the first...
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...