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...with his full mustache, uncontrolled hair and black bow tie, preached venomous hate for the U.S.; in the early '30s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu in Atlanta federal prison; he served six years for conspiring to overthrow U.S. rule in Puerto Rico...
...needs a special approach. Before even meeting his prelate, said Engelman, the painter should study him carefully-family background, personality, ecclesiastical career. Only then should he try to picture a man who is at once "a high-placed person, a compassionately spiritual father, a sturdy ruler, an immovably insular person, a religious power, a lonely...
...Palomar 1'26-'27, 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...
...must challenge one of your facts. There were no political prisoners in the Insular Penitentiary on October 28 or at any previous date. The government of Puerto Rice has never sentenced anyone to jail for a political crime. As it correctly appears in your column, when Albizu was convicted in 1937 it was by a Federal court. He was sent to a Federal penitentiary at Atlanta from which both he and his companions have since been freed...
...Malicious & Irresponsible." Oscar Chapman, fighting-mad, rumbled into a klieg-lighted meeting of the Senate's Interior and Insular Affairs Committee two days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...