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...signed by the leader of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalists, Pedro Albizu Campos (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...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...
...Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was formed in 1928, with a violent anti-American policy asserting that the U.S. has no legal claim to the island. Pedro Albizu Campos, a Harvard graduate and the present leader of the party, first drew attention to himself in 1931 by virtue of his revolutionary activities...
...Brazilians date their independence from Sept. 7, 1822, when Braganza Prince Dom Pedro tore up Portuguese crown orders to return to Lisbon, proclaimed Brazil a free and independent nation...
Police yesterday arrested Pedro Albizu Campos '16 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, because of his alleged leadership of the abortive native uprising and the attempt to assassinate President Truman...