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Died. Dr. Juan Negrin, 64, round-faced socialist and University of Madrid physiologist, who became Loyalist Spain's last premier (May, 1937) ten months after the Spanish Civil War broke out, for two years led the crumbling republic's fight against Franco's Axis-backed forces; of a heart attack; in Paris. Left-winger Negrin got aid from Russia, later was charged by onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto with having smuggled $566 million in Loyalist bullion to Russia while finance minister...
Appointment in Odessa. The move was so secret that not even Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto was informed of this destination. Prieto found out about it only because he happened to be in Cartagena on business. The maneuver had been worked out by Juan Negrin, the pro-Communist Foreign Minister of the Largo Caballero government, in cahoots with Marcel Rosenberg, the Soviet ambassador, and Arthur Stakheevsky, Soviet economic adviser in Madrid (both of whom were later purged by Stalin...
...Washington, significantly, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Dr. Juan Negrin, last Premier of the Spanish Republic, had the first official talks to be held between a high-ranking State Department officer and a high-ranking Spanish Republican in six years. The French Foreign Office sent Washington and London a note suggesting a joint revision (i.e. a possible rupture) in relations with Franco's Spain...
...half-past eleven on the wintry night of Feb. 1, 1939, the Spanish Republican Government of Premier Juan Negrin assembled in the basement of an ancient castle near the snowy Pyrenees. Their three-year struggle against Franco and his Nazi-Fascist allies was broken at last; under German and Italian bombardment, a half million starving, destitute Spaniards were straggling through the mountains toward the French border...
This week, it was expected that a special Cortes session would confirm Martinez Barrio. Then Dr. Negrin would resign his somewhat abstract office, and Barrio would ask a new premier to form a Cabinet...