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...largest city. In a pastoral letter last week. Bishop McManus launched his most formidable attack yet. "The form of government that prevails in Puerto Rico, in spite of its material accomplishments, disregards its obligations with respect to the divine !aws," he said. He asked Catholics to throw out Governor Muňoz' Popular Democratic Party in November's election, by voting for a newly formed Christian Action Party (P.A.C...
...floor of the Puerto Rican legislature authorizing public school students to take off an hour a week for religious instruction. Pointing out that because of a shortage of classrooms and teachers 62% of Puerto Rico's public school children get only three hours of education a day, Governor Muňoz strongly opposed the bill and it was defeated. A month later Bishop McManus told Catholics in a pastoral letter: "The philosophy of your government makes it responsible for the moral evils that cloud and deChristianize our society." He urged the people to give their support to the newly...
...bumper to bumper behind it. Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...
...Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Concluded the bishop: "The people of our colonies should be given a fair opportunity to choose between independence or statehood. The present condition in Puerto Rico is that Governor Muñoz Marín is, by his own will, imposing upon the people of Puerto Rico and on the Congress of the United States an independence which was never granted, and a 'voluntary association' which is absurd unless independence has been granted...