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CAMARA DE COMERCIO DE PUERTO RICO
P
(CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PUERTO RICO)
Y
ORGANIZADA EN JULIO 26 DE 1913
SAN JUAN 18, PUERTO RICO
DIRECCION
: CAMULAR
CABLEGRAFICA
February 4, 1946
AIR MAIL
Honorable Dennis Chaves
United States Senator
Senate Office Building
Washington, D. C.
My dear Senator Chaves:
As an American citizen of Puerto Rico profoundly interested in the
preservation of the ideals of American government and the American
way of life both in Puerto Rico and in the continent, I must con-
fess that I cannot explain what might well be considered the criminal
indifference of the administration in Washington towards the sinister
and shameful state of affairs created here at the instigation of and
with the active and full participation of Governor Tugwell.
This has brought into being a socialistic state-it might well be said
more totalitarian than socialistic-not only contrary to such ideals
and way of life but, moreover, patently ultra vires and in open viola-
tion of the Organic Act of Puerto Rico.
The fact of the matter is that the island is being run today not in
accordance with the type of government established by the Congress of
the United States, but by a totalitarian regime, under which policies
affecting the very life of the community in all of its aspects are
being established by groups of men generally incompetent and inexpe-
rienced, not responsible to the people, who are squandering the public
funds in a senseless manner.
To my mind the most pernicious and disquieting result of all this has
been its disconcerting and bewildering effect in the mind of the
masses, which has destroyed not only all sense of responsibility,
authority and order, but created a sentiment of class consciousness
and hatred inimical to all sane principles of government and to social
understanding.
This state of affairs cannot but affect the administration in Washington
and it has come to such a pass that it is no longer possible for the
local administration to keep these scandals from transcending to the
public.
AND
RECORDS
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