integrated into the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP). Álvarez del Vayo was the acting president of FRAP at the time of his death, which occurred on 3 May 1975 after suffering a cardiac failure on 26 April. Writings La nueva Rusia. En camión por la estepa. Las dos revoluciones, siluetas..., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1926 La senda roja, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1928 La guerra comenzó en España: lucha por la libertad, Mexico City: Séneca, 1940 Freedom's Battle, New York: Knopf, 1940 The Last Optimist, New York: Viking, 1950 Reportaje en China. Presente y futuro de un gran pueblo, Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1958 China vence, Paris: Ruedo Ibérico, 1964 The March of Socialism, New York: Hill and Wang, 1974 Give me combat, Boston: Little Brown, 1973 (memoir) References External links El hombre que fue presidente del FRAP El olvidado Álvarez del Vayo Álvarez del Vayo, el ultimo optimista 1890 births 1975 deaths People from Villaviciosa de Odón Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Foreign ministers of Spain Ambassadors of Spain to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of Spain to Mexico Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Government ministers during the Second Spanish Republic 20th-century Spanish journalists