Informes Jurídicos Y Notas Políticas Sobre La Situación Política Y Jurídica De Andorra Remitidos Al Prefecto De Los Pirineos Orientales (1881-1965) Por El Ministerio De Asuntos Exteriores Galo, Por El Comisario Extraordinario Para Los Valles De Andorra René Baulard (1933 Y 1936-1940) Y Por Otras Autoridades Y Personalidades Políticas Y Académicas (Tercera Parte)

This is the third part of a lengthy article, which will be followed by a fourth one, and it is undoubtedly the longest of the parts which have been published so far. The main character is also René-Jules Baulard and most of the documents edited here have been written by him. Two unpublished medical reports on the healthcare system in Andorra and on the physical condition of many political refugees, which had been written by Raymond Berthezène on 29th July 1938 and 2nd September 1938, are of particular interest. The Special Colonel Commissioner for Andorra, R. Baulard, keeps the Eastern Pyrenees Prefect, Albin-Émile-Raoul Didkowski, informed about the presence of José María Imbert Perejoan in Andorra, who was pretending to be a Delegate of the Spanish Republican Government in Andorra. Baulard also informs to Didkowski about everything related to the movement of political refugees, the provisioning of the Andorran Valleys in winter, the closing of the French border, the entering of Spanish border guards in Andorran territory while pursuing those who were fleeing Republican Spain and, above all, political refugees who achieved their purpose and then reached France, and, once there, entered Nationalist Spain through Hendaya. All this information is complemented with what is transmitted to the Prefect by the French viguiers, Samalens, Jean-Baptiste Laumond and Émile Lasmartes. There is also interesting documentation on the relationship between Baulard and the Deputy Director General of the Spanish Republican Government’s Border Guards. The moments of maximum tension, in the second fortnight of July 1936 and the first fortnight of August of the same year, are concisely but clearly transmitted to Paris by the acting Eastern Pyrenees Prefect, François-Marie Taviani. The present article also gathers some complementary information about the select group of refugees who entered Andorran territory on 2nd December 1937, which was composed of Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975), José María Albareda Herrera (1902-1966), Pedro Casciaro Ramírez (1915-1995), Manuel Sainz de los Terreros Villacampa (1908-1995), Francisco Botella Raduán (1915-1997), Tomás Alvira (1906-1992), Miguel Fisac Serna (1913-2006) and Juan Jiménez Vargas (1913-1997). We are also publishing several reports on the constitutional history of Andorra written, among others, by the jurist and archivist, Jean-Auguste Brutails, who was a renown scholar with a large number of publications on Andorra. One of his reports is a response and comment to a report written by the Public International Law professor Merignhac, which reveals the internal contradictions Brutails finds between the said report and Merignhac’s International Law Treatise. Part of the 1944 correspondence between the French Foreign Office Minister and the Bishop of Seu d’Urgell, once the liberation of France has taken place, is collected too. Reflections upon joint sovereignty can be found in several parts of the documents published in this article. There are confidential reports on the “Barcelona Andorran Society” and its activities in defense of the absolute independence of Andorra, without being submitted to French and episcopal rule. Nevertheless, there is no trace in these documents of very significant characters in the history of Andorra in the 1930s such as Boris Skossirev, Henri Gaussen, the malefactor Tiza or the bloodthirsty Antonio Martín Escudero, better known as the cripple from Málaga, who carried out all sorts of misdeeds and murders in Urgell and its surrounding area. But references to Isabelle Sandy and Maurice Muller Strauss can be found.