The sad-eyed, barrel-chested roost-ruler of Puerto Rican politics bellowed with pain. This time, for a change, his three big rivals came out with echoes. How could they lose? The issue was everybody's sweetheart.
"I 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.
The noise of agony arose over what the U.S....
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