From the Foreword by Oswald Garrision Villard:
This pamphlet is published by the Post War World Council not merely because of the unusual competence of Clarence Senior, the autor, but because the time for a showdown as to Puerto Rico is at hand. The coming to this country of a deputation headed by Muñoz Marín, the outstanding political leader of the island, the vote of the Puerto Rican Legislature for a plebiscite on the future of the island and the right to elect its governor – both vetoed by Governor Tugwell (and repassed over his veto) as infringing upon the privileges of Congress and the President – and the general rising the world over of colonial peoples, all these make it clear that the United States must decide at once upon a new policy toward the island. So does the long report on its status just published by the United States Tariff Commission, which document urges the immediate uprooting of no less than one million persons and their distribution abroad, wherever they may be placed, as the only remedy for the island’s menacing overpopulation save birth control.
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