Word: july
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Politically close to President Manuel Azaña, Don Julián, like the President, was never very enthusiastic in the prosecution of the Civil War. Stories leaked out that while attending the coronation of George VI in London in 1937 as an official Spanish delegate he approached the British Foreign Office with a view to ending the War by mediation. Last spring, after Catalonia fell, Professor Besteiro was one of the leaders of the coup which seized power from the Juan Negrin Government and set up a Defense Council with the avowed purpose of making peace with General Franco...
...Embassy's 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...
...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...
...Government 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...