Puerto Rican Governor To Speak in April

Puerto Rico's internal troubles are not expected to prevent Luis Muno`s Marin, governor of the island, from delivering the Godkin lectures in April, Dean Mason said last night.

Although Puerto Rico will hold an important referendum next June on drawing up a constitution, Marin expects to keep his appointment here. Announcing that the governor would give the lecture series, Mason said that he has been in close contact recently with Marin, and that Marin had not changed his mind on coming.

First Elected Governor

Marin is the first man to be elected governor; he took office in 1948. During this present nationalist insurrection, revolutionaries have made at least one attempt on his life.

The Puerto Rican official will also visit Washington while he is in the country.

The Godkin lecture series is administered by the Graduate School of Public Administration and paid for from a fund set up in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and Nation at the turn of the century. According to terms of the gift, the lectures are to be on "The Essentials of Free Government, and Duties of the Citizen . . ."