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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...
...within two years it was earning $60,000 annually. Trans Carib expanded to lift thousands of refugees from Europe to Israel, tons of airmail from Europe to South America, flew charter trips from Johannesburg to Jerusalem. It grew so strong that in 1957 it won a regular U.S.-Puerto Rico route, became the first nonsked passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status (TIME, Dec. 2, 1957). Last year Trans Carib (including its major subsidiary, D.C. Transit) earned more than $1,000,000, most of it for Chalk and his wife, who own 70% of the stock...
...Honorable Luis Munoz Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico, will give the first of three Godkin lectures on "Nationalism and Its Effect on World Tensions" tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...