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“Then a strange thing happened. A US Senator named Millard Tydings finally introduced a bill that would give Puerto Ricans their independence. Every politician on the island supported it—except Luis. Throughout the 1940s, he repeatedly opposed the Tydings independence bill. He even traveled to Washington in 1943 and 1945 to lobby against it, saying that Puerto Rico “was not ready for self-government.”54”
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
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