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Juan Negrin - Physiologist, Socialist, and Spanish Republican War Leader (Paperback)
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Juan Negrin - Physiologist, Socialist, and Spanish Republican War Leader (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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Dr. Juan Negrin Lopez (18921956) was a man of immense talent,
energy, and socialist convictions who served the Spanish people in
different capacities: as a physiologist of international reputation
and as chairman of the medical faculty of the Complutense
University in Madrid during the 1920s; as an active member of the
Parliamentary wing of the Socialist Party, 19311936; during the
Civil War as Minister of Finance in the Popular Front government
led by Francisco Largo Caballero (September 1936May 1937); and as
Prime Minister from late May until March 1939. In all these roles
he was highly competent: improving the laboratories and
experimental methods in physiology, obtaining scholarships for
students, suggesting subjects for doctoral theses, encouraging his
students to learn foreign languages and read scientific literature
in the original, and also to think of public health as a national,
public responsibility. As Minister of Finance he conceived of
Spains relatively large gold reserve as the only means by which the
Republic could buy the quality of modern arms that were being
supplied to General Franco by Hitler and Mussolini. In European
politics of the mid-1930s he understood much better than did the
English, French, and United States political classes that Nazism
and Fascism were a much greater threat to European democracy than
was Soviet Communism. But the appeasement policy culminating in the
Munich Pact of September 29, 1938 sealed the fate of the Spanish
Republic as well as that of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. From
1940 onward Negrin was reviled in Franco Spain for having
supposedly delivered the Republic into the hands of the Communists;
many republican and socialist exiles also rejected him for
continuing his Numantian policy of resistance when, after Munich,
the military possibilities of the Republic were truly hopeless.
Gabriel Jackson sets out to understand the moral and political
thinking of Dr. Negrin of those who supported him to the end and of
those who felt that the last months of the war merely prolonged the
suffering of the population. Published in association with the
Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
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