Word: munoz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger tasks now confronting mankind, nationalism is obsolescent," Governor Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico asserted last night. Speaking before a sparse but enthusiastic audience in the first of three Godkin Lectures at Sanders Theatre, the Governor said that nationalism has produced a politics at variance with the realities of the world...
Applying to the case of Puerto Rico his idea that political growth has not stopped with nationalism, Munoz stated, "Puerto Rico has by-passed the political emotions of nationalism on its way out of colonialism. Puerto Rico does not want obsolescent colonialism, nor does it want obsolescent nationalism. Puerto Ricans are anti-colonialists, and still not nationalists...
...ideal status, he indicated, would be a large, loose federal structure, or series of structures, such as the one that now links Puerto Rico and the United States. "The mind of mankind must get much more accustomed to the idea of a bigger federalism," Munoz said...
Addressing himself to the present situation of tension between the two great national states of the world, Russia and America, Munoz asserted that fear in the Soviet Union that Americans are trying to destroy them, has driven the Russians to absorb the neighboring states as buffers against possible frontal attacks by the United States. The West then answered with a policy of containment and developed a defensive ring around the "Russian-Chinese giant...
...Munoz spent his youth in the United States, first trailing his father about Washington in Puerto Rican diplomatic circles, and later as a poet-critic on his own in New York...