Despoilment and redemption of a Liberal. Salvador de Madariaga and Eduardo García de Enterría faced with the July 18’s State (1937-1971)

Abstract

The correspondence between Salvador de Madariaga and Eduardo García de Enterría from 1966 to 1971 allow us to know, in detail, the act of confiscation of the Spanish diplomat’s properties during the Civil War and the subsequent process of appeal and reparation presented by the jurist before the elites and the political institutions of the Dictatorship. A passage that, since the total confiscation of Madariaga’s property in Spain in 1937, the pardon granted by the government in 1968, and its definitive reparation in 1971, provides significant clues to understand the evolution of the Franco’s regime.