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...Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marin: "You have been publicly critical of land reform...
Giving in after a dogged resistance, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin last week agreed to a plebiscite on Puerto Rico's future relationship with the U.S. Choices: statehood, independence or continued Commonwealth status...
Governor Luis Munoz Marin reiterated his belief that nationalism is an obsolescent concept in the face of nuclear energy in the concluding Godkin lecture, last night. He declared that federalism therefore must cease to be only a "noble but utopian idea" and become a "purpose to be held by the hearts of mankind...
...basic meaning of the Puerto Rican experience, according to Governor Luis Munoz Marin, is that a people, freed from colonialism, can avoid nationalism...
Puerto Rico had managed to achieve both of its objectives--political autonomy and economic unity--while giving up nothing for either of them. How did this come about? Rexford G. Tugwell, the last of the regularly appointed governors of the island, calls it "The Grand Conception of Munoz Marin." Munoz had the challenging task of rallying a people split widely between the two views of statehood and complete independence, and then convincing the U.S. Congress that his solution was the correct...