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There were other sparks flying to indicate what shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
...Navy prompted Berlin newspapers to attack him as a "warmonger." For some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a public apology. In 1939, his tour of duty as CNO completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name...
Government bungling (failure to offer the Cubans enough to induce heavy planting), the use of 900,000 tons of sugar to make synthetic rubber, plus 26% greater demands by the services, plus strikes in Puerto Rico, plus a drought in Cuba, had cut the amount of sugar available for U.S. civilians from last year's 6.1 million tons to less than five million...
...Army for 35 years, Lt. Col. Tuttle served as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Puerto Rico, Syracuse University, the University of Akron, and other schools...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...