TERRITORIES: Pistols, Rifles, Bullets

"Pistols, Rifles, Bullets"

In a San Juan, Puerto Rico courtroom last month two middle-aged men amiably reminisced of their undergraduate days at Harvard. One was Colonel Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, onetime (1930-33) director of the U. S. Bureau of Prohibition. The other was frail, voluble Pedro Albizu y Campos, President of Puerto Rico's small, explosive Nationalist Party. Lawyer Woodcock's job was to prosecute Lawyer

Albizu and seven of his followers on charges of: 1) attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government by force; 2) fomenting violence; 3) trying to recruit an...

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