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...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...orange-trimmed plane for a friendly chat en route to Washington went Luis Ferré, 56, the millionaire industrialist, accomplished pianist and M.I.T. honor graduate who is running for Governor on the Statehood Republican Party ticket in the November elections. The trip got big Page One headlines in Puerto Rican newspapers, and Candidate Ferré beamed: "We talked as one Republican to another...
...Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto Rican politics. Replied Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Can you imagine the President being against a recognized candidate of his own party...
...have a better chance, Luis, if you could give the platform committee some indication of public opinion on statehood in Puerto Rico." Ferré found that Republican leaders in Washington generally favor keeping some form of the 1956 plank, endorsing the "fundamental principle of self-determination" of the Puerto Rican people. In his political campaign, Ferré will try to prove that self-determination means statehood sooner or later...
Handlin concludes that Negro and Puerto Rican groups must develop closer communal institutions. He points out that these ethnic groups will continue to live in cohesive settlements, and does not believe that dispersal will solve economic and social prejudice...