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July 9, 1939

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SPANISH COURT SITS ON BESTEIRO'S FATE; Officers Weigh Republican Leader's Clemency Plea and the Demand for His Death

By William P.carney Wireless To the New York Times

MADRID, July 8.-The death penalty was asked by the prosecution in the trial today by a military court of 69-year-old Professor Julian Besteiro, Socialist President of the Republican Cortes in 1931 and the only member of Madrid's Defense Council to remain for the city's actual surrender, last March 28.

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