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...with the U.S. Congress, he wrote a bill that invented the concept of a "free, associated state." It was enacted "in the nature of a compact" between Congress (which approved it in 1950) and the Puerto Rican people (who ratified it in a referendum). Chiefly, the bill authorized Puerto Rico to write itself a constitution for complete local self-government and provided for U.S.-Puerto Rican relationship. Main effects...
Says Adolf Berle: "Puerto Rico has independence in everything except economics, defense and foreign relations-and these three are international by hypothesis."* Moreover, the commonwealth concept is free to evolve, perhaps in the line of further shucking off of federal laws, or unlinking courts from the U.S. system. President Eisenhower long ago promised to recommend that Congress give Puerto Rico independence any time the islanders vote for it. Moscoso says Puerto Ricans sense their freedom because they "are in a room with the doors open...
...Bootstrap's hard pull has by no means yanked Puerto Rico to its announced objective of full employment; 13% of the labor force of 636,000 have no jobs (v. 18% at present in Detroit). Main reason: the natural increase in population keeps pace with industrialization. "There is an old saying here that a man must do three things during life: plant trees, write books and have sons," sighs Muñoz. "I wish they would plant more trees and write more books...
Since 1940, the birth rate has declined sharply; Puerto Rico's population rise lately is due entirely to a drastic drop in the death rate, which is now lower than...
...Migration. The safety valve for Puerto Rico's population pressure has been migration to the U.S. Puerto Ricans like their sunny island, but until jobs there are more plentiful, many of them will continue to yearn for the U.S. as it is described in the Broadway musical West Side Story...