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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...
...line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months ago in Barcelona urged Loyalist President Manuel Azana to dismiss Dr. Negrin and sue for peace...
...though to convince Francisco Franco that Juan Negrin's regime was dead indeed, the junta recalled exiled General Jose Miaja to Madrid and named him "President." When Franco's armies last fought to the capital's outskirts, Jose Miaja well earned his title: "Savior of Madrid." This week he was back to save Madrileiños by other means than fighting...
Despite its original tough talk, the junta was for "surrender with honor." Scarcely had Dr. Negrin been ousted before General Casado was addressing, in a broadcast from Madrid, these words to the enemy...
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...