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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Rican politicians long ago discovered the conviction that the people of Puerto Rico, like the people of Cuba, of a right ought to be free and independent. But this traditional tenet of the Liberal Party which ruled Puerto Rico for years was largely an academic issue which failed to rouse the drowsy insular population to thought or action. The only violent advocates of independence have been the Nationalists, a small minority party led by Pedro Albizu Campos. Two Nationalists recently assassinated Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Unwanted Freedom | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Senator Tydings' bill to free Puerto Rico was modeled on his Philippine Independence Bill. It provides that on Nov. 2, 1937, Puerto Ricans shall be invited to vote on the question: "Shall the people of Puerto Rico be sovereign and independent?" If a majority vote "Yes" a convention is to be called within seven months to draw up a Constitution to be submitted, within one year, to the President of the U. S. Then a commonwealth would be set up for four years and immediately appropriations of U. S. money for the islands, with certain minor reservations, would cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Unwanted Freedom | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

With the Tydings bill for Porto Rican independence, the Administration once again gives startling evidence of its "good neighbor" attitude towards Latin America. This latest move is particularly astute since it gains sentimental prestige as the generous act of a great nation towards an aspiring little one; and at the same time it may rid us of the last and most harrassing of the Caribbean hornets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD TYDINGS | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...bill puts the question of their future squarely up to the local politicians. If their bravado proves to be nothing more than that, then the wiser leaders will regain control, provided with an effective radical-silencer. But if these Porto Rican lago's persuade the populace to vote "yes" on the independence referendum, they will have only themselves to blame for the disastrous results that are bound to follow. Porto Rico now enjoys the best possible trade relations with America: in four years, when complete independence would be obtained, she would be allowed no more privileges than any other country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD TYDINGS | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Something for Nothing | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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