Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
...right. That day eleven were shot. One, a civilian named Victor Marin, had been tortured all night to make him tell the names of his associates. He did not break down. When taken out for execution, both arms were broken, one eye gouged out, one shoulder dislocated, one knee smashed, his hand a bloody pulp. Asked a priest: "Victor, are you afraid of death?" "No, Father," he replied, "it is my body which trembles, not my spirit...
...cannot see any reason to justify why, in a good democracy," cried Senate President Luis Munoz Marin, leader of the dominating Popular Democratic Party, "Puerto Rico should be denied the right to have complete self-government without limitation." Independent-sounding amens came fast from all other party leaders-Union Republicans, Socialists, whatnots...
...politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
...advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...