Julio Álvarez del Vayo

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Julio Álvarez del Vayo

Julio Álvarez del Vayo (9 February 1891

Socialist politician, journalist and writer
.

Biography

Álvarez studied

Largo Caballero
.

During the

general of the Army. He was a member of the peace commission which monitored the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1933, at the peak of the Chaco War.[3]

In his role as Foreign Minister, Alvarez del Vayo had repeatedely requested refuge for Spaniards fleeing Franco's Nationalist forces throughout Spain. In 1939 he wrote to Monsieur Georges Bonnet, asking for the safe harbouring of over 150,000 Spanish Republicans in France, to which Bonnet declined "owing to the financial and other technical difficulties involved".

Alicante
shortly before the armistice.

In 1939, Vayo began writing for

liberal left, from Dwight Macdonald to Arthur Schlesinger.[5]

During the 1940s and 1950s Álvarez del Vayo lived in exile in Mexico, the United States and Switzerland. He radicalized his political positions and was expelled from the PSOE. He then founded the Unión Socialista Española, which was very close to the Communist Party of Spain. In 1963, following the abandoning of armed struggle by the Communist Party and the waning of the activity of the Spanish Maquis, Álvarez del Vayo felt the need for a pro-Republican movement carrying out the armed struggle within Spain and established the Spanish National Liberation Front (FELN). However, the FELN as a group remained small and its activity was very limited owing to the effectiveness and fierceness of the Spanish police network. Finally in 1971 Álvarez del Vayo's FELN was integrated into the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP).[6] Álvarez del Vayo was the acting president of FRAP at the time of his death, which occurred on 3 May 1975 after suffering a cardiac failure on 26 April.[7] He was buried alongside his wife Louise. The mortuary concession ran out at the end of 2015. In 2016, the Association of Former Guerrillas in France (AAGEF-FFI), informed that his tomb was about to be destroyed, decided to take over the concession, as a precautionary measure, paying the €1,484 required for five years, an objective that was achieved.[8]

Writings

  • La nueva Rusia. En camión por la estepa. Las dos revoluciones, siluetas..., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1926
  • La senda roja, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1928
  • La guerra comenzó en España: lucha por la libertad, Mexico City: Séneca, 1940
  • Freedom's Battle, New York: Knopf, 1940
  • The Last Optimist, New York: Viking, 1950
  • Reportaje en China. Presente y futuro de un gran pueblo, Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1958
  • China vence, Paris: Ruedo Ibérico, 1964
  • The March of Socialism, New York: Hill and Wang, 1974
  • Give me combat, Boston: Little Brown, 1973 (memoir)

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  3. ISBN 0-275-95218-5
  4. ^ The Times, January 5th, 1939
  5. ISSN 0027-8378
    . Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  6. ^ FRAP - Del Vayo Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Última entrevista con Álvarez del Vayo (in Spanish)
  8. ^ Jiménez, Rafael (2020-12-04). "Francia: antiguos guerrilleros españoles piden apoyo para salvar la tumba de Álvarez del Vayo". Aquí Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-17.

External links

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