Amado Alonso and Federico de Onís, two investigators from the first cohort of JAE students whose actions had a vital impact in many instances, welcomed their colleagues and friends to the United States, having settled there prior to 1936. Columbia University and its Casa de las Españas – of which Onís was the heart and soul – were meeting places for numerous intellectuals linked to the JAE but dispersed amongst many different universities and research centres, amongst them Américo Castro, Salinas, Guillén, Fernando de lo Ríos, Francisco García Lorca, Fernández Montesinos, Navarro Tomás, Marichal, Grande Covián and Severo Ochoa. Special mention must go to Middlebury College’s Spanish School which, propelled by the ex-Resident, Juan Centeno, enabled numerous meetings between the many exiles and American friends of the ILE, the JAE, and the Residencia de Estudiantes, and the intellectuals which were arriving in the States from Francoist Spain.
Portada del número 24 de la revista Time con una fotografía de Salvador Dalí por Man Ray, 14 de diciembre de 1936. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid.