Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copies of a British scientific magazine which arrived in the U.S. last week contained a report by famed British biologist J. B. S. Haldane of his experiments in the physiology of submarine crews. One of his 20 human guinea pigs was Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of Spain during the last days of the Civil War. Under terrific air pressure, 53-year-old Dr. Negrin and the other subjects (mostly exiles) writhed with the bends, screwed up their faces with the pain of hammering headaches, as Professor Haldane tested the bodily effects of gases at various pressures...
...Negrin was fighting his battle on familiar ground. Before his premiership he was a professor of biology, one of Spain's leading physiologists...
...Negrin stated that he has been unable to communicate with his friends in Spain since the Rebel victory. The plight of Spanish refugees in France, of whom there are some half-million, is equally dangerous, for they are new subject to the vengeance of their former enemies...
Like his father, Negrin is an accomplished linguist, having studied in several European countries before coming to the United States. During the early part of the Spanish War he studied in Soviet Russia, where he was attached to the Spanish Embassy...
...father," young Negrin stated, "was laughed at when he said that he war might last more than a year. Everyone believed it would be over within a month." The "non-intervention" policy of England and France prevented such a conclusion to the war, he added...