Withdrawal and Reaction
O'Duffy, who had conducted his war from a series of comfortable hotels, then offered to withdraw his unit, and Franco agreed. The new Foreign Legion general Juan Yagüe loathed O'Duffy. Most of the brigade returned to Cáceres and was shipped home from Portugal. On its arrival in late June 1937 in Dublin it was greeted by hundreds, not thousands as expected, and O'Duffy's political career was over.
The Irish government destroyed its files relating to the Brigade in May 1940.
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