MANUEL AZANA
(Manuel Azaña Díaz)
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The archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Pedro Segura, had put the Catholic Church in the midst of the political struggle siding with the Fascists against the Republicans. In retaliation, several Catholic churches and convents were burned. The Cardinal and others wanted to take severe reprisals against the Republicans.
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Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He was the most prominent leader of the losing Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
