Word: insularism
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Last week that program passed a historic milestone when Chairman Millard E. Tydings of the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs quietly rose on the Senate floor and announced: "Mr. President, I shall send to the desk shortly a bill proposing to give the people of Puerto Rico the option of becoming independent as a result of a national referendum. . . . The bill will be introduced with the support of the Administration...
...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 six Puerto Rican policemen and officers...
...Washington on insular business, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico called in the Press, gave them a glowing report on conditions in the island, belittled recent disturbances, ducked any direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...
...Filipinos held a mass meeting in San Francisco, passed a resolution denouncing this description of them as savages, sent a copy to Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington. Before the Philippine Commonwealth was set up Commissioner Paredes, short, swart, swank, suave and banjo-eyed, was Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives and one of the Islands' leading politicians. When Manuel Quezon became the first Philippine President, he made it plain that he would brook no rivals in political power. The once-powerful Speakership was reduced to an office of no importance, and able Señor Paredes...
Motoring home from mass last week with prayer book and rosary in his hands, Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, heard a shot, gave chase to a man in a car. When police halted the runaway, another Nationalist popped up beside Colonel Riggs's car, shot him thrice, once through his prayer book, once through his chest, once through his head. He died within the hour...