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Early this week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Premier Edouard Daladier of France announced that their Governments were simultaneously recognizing the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and withdrawing recognition from the Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
...London Loyalist Ambassador Pablo de Azcarate was called to the Foreign Office and handed his walking papers. In Paris Loyalist President Manuel Azańa left the Spanish Embassy, where he had lived since the fall of Catalonia, and took a train for the village of Collonges, on the Swiss border, where he expects to live in exile. He had left behind his resignation, to be made public at an "opportune moment." As a last gesture of international courtesy a lone French Foreign Office underling saw Don Manuel...
More than any other single action, the Chamberlain-Daladier move doomed any lingering Loyalist hope that Madrid could carry on alone. Dr. Negrin's plane was reported ready to carry the former Premier out of the country and many other Loyalist leaders in Valencia and Madrid prepared to flee. At least 10,000 Loyalists felt their lives sufficiently in jeopardy to want to take up the offer of a ride on British and French warships to neutral ports...
...arrangement seemed so near to going through that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that Jules Henry, French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...
...summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment visiting Loyalist Spain, returned to champion its cause all over the U. S. Her next play will be a dramatization of one of the earliest and one of the greatest of social-minded novels, Zola's Germinal...