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...caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon and report to Father Kennedy his observations and conversations with Loyalist leaders, Foreign Minister Julián Besteiro and Colonel Segismundo Casado. Young Kennedy wrote his honors thesis at Harvard last year on the legal aspects of the Spanish...
Pitifully few escaped. Old General José Miaja, Madrid's famed defender, flew with his staff from Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders...
General José Miaja, the "Savior of Madrid," his war minister, Segismundo Casado, political and trade union leaders and others who feared reprisals had fled to Valencia. Over the Madrid radio Foreign Minister Julian Besteiro, British-backed negotiator who was largely responsible for turning the face of Madrid from defiance to surrender, counseled: "Madrileños! . . . The moment has arrived for avoiding further bloodshed. . . . Let us all be calm and serene, at present, accepting the surrender of Madrid as the best means of salvation. . . . Viva España!" Thus ended, after two years, four months and 21 days...
...said Julián Besteiro, Foreign Minister of Loyalist Spain's National Defense Council, over Madrid's Union Radio last week. He was speaking directly and publicly to Burgos, 220 miles away, seat of the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco...
...even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months ago in Barcelona urged Loyalist President Manuel Azana to dismiss Dr. Negrin and sue for peace...