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Bashed in the nose diplomatically, the Axis plugged new life into its propaganda machine. The theme: Batista's remarks are a warning that "the Anglo-Saxon empires are planning to use Spain to create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
...Government decreed surrender to a joint Government-refugee commission of the fabulous Vita treasure, smuggled from Spain by Juan Negrin, hijacked at sea by Negrin's onetime mentor Indalecio Prieto, and subsequently the cause célèbre of Spanish refugee politics. Valued between 70 and 300 million dollars, the treasure is coveted by the Franco Government, as well as by the refugees...
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...
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...