The Holy See, The Republic and the basque children: a diplomatic battle inside the spanish civil war ; La Santa Sede, la República y los niños vascos: una batalla diplomática dentro de la guerra civil española

With the arrival to the Nationalist Spain of Ildebrando Antoniutti, sent by the Holy See with the apparent mission to repatriate the republican Basque children in exile, it was opened a diplomatic rapprochement through the Holy See and Franco, but the Apostolic Delegate launched also the repatriation of hundred of children. We analyse here different aspects of this non bloody but real fight: the battle for the children. All around Europe there were institutions promoting the return of the children to Spain and other institutions opposing it. This paper, using documentation of the Archivo Gomá,... Mehr ...