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UN Told World War Possible Over Congo Officials Say Revolt Here Hammarskjold Insists rs +
Belgian Troops Move
Is ‘Next To Impossible’ By A. W. MALDONADO A Castro-type guerrilla revolution in Puerto Rico was seen here yesterday by top * Commonwealth officials as ‘next to impossible.”
stating
Sunday,
a revolution in Puerto Rico is one of the chief aims of Fidel Castro’s govern-
that
P.R. Independence Strictly Local Issue Say Separatists
ment. Government leaders here stressed that to start an armed revolution
parties
here
agreed
locally
The
Reasons It that
must
inspired
by
the
leader
rally held at the Ateneo Espanol, in Mexico City, some months before Castro and his followers embarked
yacht
handful of for Cuba
Gamma,
Comment On
P.R: Quizzing By
SEN. CONCEPCION DE GRACIA ... liberty, universal
problem
Rico—Five
times
Congo,
larger
than
Cuba. 3. Topography of Puerta Rico makes it “impossible” to hide an (See REVOLT, Page 5)
including¢
demand
with
coupled
a warning
his
that the
Ike Says U.S. Military Might Best In World WASHINGTON
(#—President
Ei
the
senhower told congress yesterday this nation’s military power ‘“‘is
The Soviet Union called on the Security Council to empower U.N. forces in the Congo to shoot their way into Katanga Province. However, there appeared little chance that the rest of the members would go along with the proposal. Specifically, the Soviet asked that Hammarskjold be given power
that way.” Eisenhower said in a message to the recovening congress that if additional funds are needed to step up the country’s readiness “I shall promptly request the necessary funds.” The President cited reeent world events which he said de-
situation
threat
in
of
the
Congo
another
poses
world
war.
to take any measures necessary to compel Belgian troop withdrawal
from
Katanga.
Belgium replied that it would withdraw as soon as it had assurance that its troops and Bel(See
CONGO,
Page
20)
second
to
(See
noted
Alse
‘‘an
munist
none
and
Story
will
be
Page
intensification
kept
6)
of Com-
truculence.”’
‘Indeed,’’ Eisenhower said, ‘‘the Seviet dictator has talked loosely and
irresponsibly (See
IKE
about
SAYS,
a possible
Page
5)
WALTER Washington
ganize the July 26 movement. In a separate interview, Independence Party (PIP) President Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia
also insisted
island
independ-
of the solved
Puerto by the
While saying he does not believe Fidel
Castro
is
pushing
for
a
re-
volt in Puerto Rico, the Independence Party leader noted that the} “problems | of liberty naturally have universal repercussions.”’
A
State
‘Department
memoran-
According memo,
to
the
the
Cuban
departmental regime
hopes
WASHINGTON—The FBI yesterday refused to discuss reports
tively assist’ a handful of} “to Puerto Rican radicals whose al-
that have
in° San Juan Puerto Rican
leged purpose is violent overthrow of. the Puerto Rican government.
Nationalists and other radical independence backers on Cuban pro-
Concepcion said he does not consider the Castro movement alone
special agents been quizzing
‘mises to help in the overthrow of the-Commonwealth government. The FBI was asked for comment in the wake of U. S. accusations. charging. Fidel Castro’s government with -working ‘‘in open league’ with Russia and Red (See FBL REFUSES, Page 5)
;
dum—submitted Aug. 2 to the Inter-American Peace Committee but released to the press Sunday— charged that the Commonwealth is ‘‘among the targets” of Castro.
PRIEST Correspondent
that
ence ‘is a problem Ricans and will be Puerto Ricans.”
to or-
FBI Refuses
STAR
Guard
Cuba. 2. Population density of Puer-
to
the
Katanga, and entry of U. N. forces. The secretary-general made the statement at a dramatic meeting of the Security Council, where he won quick support from the United States.
actionsof Albizu,”’
ration for his revolutionary career was supposedly made during a
the
of
of hos-
stated O’Neill. The admission by Castro that Albizu was an inspi-
aboard
National
unconditional withdrawal of Belgian forces from
Hammarskjold
Given
Puerto Rico as it did in Cuba, according to government officials, are as follows: 1. The smallness of Puerto Rico — Less than one tenth the size
The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, coordinator Luis O’Neill, said “was waging revolutions long be-
Pedro Albizu Campos, and ‘claims to be the authorized spokesman for the party in the absence of Albizu. “Castro himself has said he was
would have U.S. military
rising in October, 1950. The reasons why a guerrilla rebellion would not succeed in
a revolution in Puerto Rico, claiming in-turn that ‘‘we will win the independence of Puerto Rico.”
party
is
have been able to handle in the past all violent outbreaks, such as the two-day Nationalist up-
of Nationalist
pitalized* Nationalist
Rico
was pointed out, however, Puerto Rico police and the
well-equipped
Party activities in Puerto Rico dismissed U. S. State Department charges that Fidel Castro plans
fore Castro.” _* O'Neill is the ‘son-in-law
Puerto
might.”
won.
‘‘coordinator”
within
that is, the rebels to contend with the
yester-
day that island independence be
from
“the same as starting it in Miami;
By HAROLD J. LIDIN Spokesmen for. both the peaceful, and the not-so-peaceful separatist
memorandum,
Department
on a U. 8. State
commented
leaders
government
Local
released
UNITED NATIONS (AP)--United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold yesterday called for immediate and
as
the
herald
of
a
new
economic
order in Latin America. “Other movements and attitudes, like those of Stevenson
and
Rocke-
feller on the common market,” also mark the “beginning of. the end of U. S. economic imperialism in Latin America,” he said, %&
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:
streets are A DOG’S LIFE ENDS—Each week the stray dogs picked off the city’s t of Departmen municipal the by manner ic asphyxiated in a brutal and unscientif Sanitation. One dog’s story is recorded by “Our Man In San Juan,” Page 20. (STAR photo by Dine.)