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...French Government did all that was possible last week for the immediate problem, that of providing food for the half-starved Loyalists. Toward settling the bigger problem, resettling the refugees either in Spain or in some other country, the Loyalist Government made the first step. It issued to the refugees a printed form asking: "What do you want to do? Remain in France? Have you means to do so? Work in America, [South and Central] in your profession? Return to [Insurgent) Spain? What motives impel you to adopt this decision?" Officials of the Loyalist Ministry of State declared that their...
Meantime, the Loyalist Government arranged with France to use the sizable gold holdings it still has in Paris to pay for part of the refugees' expenses in France...
...border posts last week more than 100,000 civilian refugees had made their way into France. The 150,000 defeated Catalonian soldiers swelled the refugee ranks to far more than the backward, rural Pyrenees district of France could handle. Camps had been built for the internment of the Loyalist fighting forces but these makeshift shelters were able to hold only 100,000. The rest of the soldiers and most of the civilians were forced to camp in the open...
Blasted from little Figueras, the fourth Loyalist capital since the war began, Premier Juan Negrin, most of his cabinet and a few of his military aides early in the week made a beeline for the French border 17 miles away. The French Government, anxious to get in the good graces of Rebel Generalissimo Franco, quietly let it be known that the Loyalist Government would not be allowed to carry on its activities in French territory...
...half-French border village of Le Perthus he established his Government in a house, No. 22 on the main street of the village, the back door of which was in Spanish territory, the front in French. The Spanish section of the town was temporarily made the fifth capital of Loyalist Spain. But not for long. When the triumphant Rebels pressed forward to the frontier (see p. 16), Premier