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...less panicky was the Spanish Government in its retreat. Loyalist President Manuel Azaña passed over the border on foot. President Luis Companys of Catalonia and his government got to safety. So did President Jose Antonio de Aguirre of the now non-existent Basque Republic. Premier Dr. Juan Negrin stuck it out until the last minute, then took to a mountain pass to France. The last of his ministers were shortly on his heels...
...something to prevent further bloodshed in the war. From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance. He was said to have split with Dr. Negrin and to have gone to Paris. The Catalonian Government was said to have declared the war at an end as far as it was concerned, which...
...Premier Negrin offered publicly to mediate the war on three conditions: 1) that Spain would be freed of foreign influence (meaning Italians and Germans); 2) that a Government be established through a plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without persecution so that all Spaniards could join in reconstruction. On the other hand, Generalissimo Franco, answering inquiries from London and Paris, was reported to have demanded unconditional surrender. Despite the crescendo of peace reports, it seemed more than likely that Dr. Negrin and his loyal ministers would soon transfer...
...third time the Loyalist Government's capital was moved. Premier Dr. Juan Negrin set up headquarters in the little fortress town of Figueras, 17 miles south of the French border and 40 miles north of the advancing Rebel lines at week's end. He announced a fight to the finish and declared that fresh troops with new arms would establish a line on the Ter River. In an odd dispatch. New York Timesman H. L. Matthews stated that the French border had "opened just a little" so that war material could get to the Loyalists. There...
...night before the fall the censors told foreign correspondents that they would not be operating in Barcelona the next day. Dr. Negrin left in the middle of the night. What Loyalist battalions remained guarding the city vanished before daylight. It was all over...