Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eclipse of Commissar Litvinoff last week left the Geneva limelight to Premier Dr. Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. In a noble speech, upholding with Spanish fervor the ideals of the League, Dr. Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism...
...Negrin did not ask the League to do anything about removing the Germans and Italians who are fighting for Rightist Spain, but he did go on to announce dramatically that Leftist Spain, which has been sending home its foreign volunteers for several weeks past, will now send the last of them home (see below), and only asks the League of Nations to send a commission to Spain to verify this fact. The cautious Assembly did not at once appoint the commission requested by Dr. Negrin, but he was cheered for having struck a purely idealistic note "proving that the League...
Paris Exposition.* Artist Renau quit his Government job two months ago to do some work of his own. First thing he did was to make 13 photomontages, in some instances blending painting and photography, to illustrate by symbols the 13 points of Premier Juan Negrin's program for Spain...
...brilliant, literary President Manuel Azana, statesman-reformer, there has been the anonymous life of a figurehead. This week he emerged to make a radio address. For more than a year, a Socialist physician, Dr. Juan Negrin, educated in Germany, a fluent linguist, frequenter of Madrid's swankiest cafés, has ruled Leftist Spain, his decrees being subject to periodic scrutiny by an obedient, peripatetic Cortes...
French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts...