Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin was replaced early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...
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...
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...
...Premier Negrin soon found a way out. In the half-Spanish, 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
With the Rebel capture of Catalonia complete, Premier Negrin, determined to hold out in central Loyalist Spain until he can wangle the best possible terms out of Generalissimo Franco or until international developments-i.e., war or the threat of war between Italy and France-turn the tide in favor of Loyalist Spain, announced his intention to go to Madrid and continue the struggle. Again France indulged in a friendly gesture to General Franco and informed Premier Negrin that no special plane would be allowed to remove him from French soil. Again the Premier found a way out. With...