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...Butler included $57 million spent in Puerto Rico as part of his $6 billion Latin American outlay. Reply: Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not a foreign country...
...Asked Congress to grant home rule for Puerto Rico, including election of the Governor (now appointed by the President...
...gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty to Petain." From Martinique Georges Robert went into exile in U.S. Puerto Rico, under the protection of the U.S. Navy...
...movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Panama. Army theaters in the U.S. are now built in three sizes, seating 364, 602, 1038, and have an annual attendance of 225,000,000. They rent standard-size films from the producers at an estimated annual cost of over...
...strictly Government Issue publication, it will last roughly only for the duration, does not worry about circulation (figures are secret) or profit. Yank now has four editions-two published in New York (for U.S. camps, for overseas distribution), one in London for soldiers stationed in Britain, one in Puerto Rico for Caribbean garrisons. Others are planned...