Because, you will see, the II Spanish Republic He was born in the afternoon of April 12, 1931that is, this Saturday will be 94 years old. On that date a good part of the plotters of the opposition to the king, they were waiting anxious in a house of the socialist people the result of The stupid municipal elections That he had summoned, against all the lights of reason, the last president of the already agonizing monarchy, the unfortunate Almirante Aznar. There, in the house of the socialist people without Julián Besteiro, by the way, some members of the management committee chosen in the Pact of San Sebastián, August 1930, remained stunned, amazed, before the communications that their loyals of the periphery transmitted to them, so many were the good news for them of urban Spain that one of the most active members of the committee dared to proclaim in advance: “The big capitals are ours.” More cautious, his revolution colleagues pointed out that one thing was cultivated and another the rural one, as was the end. The years have already passed, when Maura presented her book in Madrid Thus Alfonso XIII fellit was the year 1962, it was heard saying: “They really gave us power.” But he added suggestively for those who would like to hear him: “But know that when the socialists arrive at the government they stay forever.” It seems that it was today, right? Maura then right: Republicans won the large population nuclei in effect And the victory in the towns of the right, more or less monarchical, did not help them.
Thus the Republic began in a similar way to the circumstance that in these times has led Pedro Sánchez to Moncloa: losing the elections, but winning the firstborn of power thanks to a social-republican coyunda in which only three or four moderately acceptable characters inhabited: Azaña, Indalecio Prieto, Lerroux and Mauraa guy this stable that passed to the Republican side but not before going to say goodbye to the King, in an unusual performance that would now be frankly atrababilian. I do not quote Manuel Azaña, so celebrated at the moment, because he was hidden since the members of the coalition were arrested in December 30 accused of altering the constitutional order. They had prepared the assault on the institutions for the 15th, but before they were arrested, admitted to the Madrid model jail, and there they lived some in some rooms that the common prisoners called “paid cells”, they will already imagine why. In this center they received the person in charge of Don Alfonso XIII to comply with the last to extend his regime. In the prison appeared the voluntary Sánchez Guerra, who proposed nothing less than to enter the Government, Alcalá Zamora replied that “we have to think,” but Maura, threw him with untempted boxes. By then conservatives, liberals, moderate nationalists, agrarian and Catholics of all condition were divided and thus presented themselves to the constituent elections convened by the provisional government. The proposed system, a majority cut with small arrangements, gave the victory to the socialists (115 seats) That, at the time, however, they were games in two features later irreconcilable: the “prietists”, Don Indalecio, Minister of Finance because, according to their own clarification. “No one wanted to occupy this portfolio,” and the “lagocaballeristas,” Long gentleman, An ex officio man who had been a collaborator of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, as a state counselor.
Briefly, this is the small history of a Spain, that of 1931, which, as the depauperado Almirante Aznar said “laid monarchically and got up republican,” just as things are done in this country: suddenly and improvisedly. Now, the elegiac spokespersons that sing the glories of that republican disaster, maintain, thanks to the texts of the Hispanists of Izquerda, Jackson, Preston … What to say about Tuñón de Lara! That nothing had been left to good tuntún, that the arrival of that republic was an almost political and institutional work in which the progressive forces had decided to liquidate a clearly guilty regime of the years of dictatorship.
All that-the liar singers like Pedro Sánchez know it-is a huge ram-, some left almost roughly win, and the others took advantage of as much faint-hearted. Also, and to maintain the fiction of a republic of all Spaniards, a sublime five -year period, take refuge in the definition that its President Alcalá Zamora made: “Government and conservative.” Poor Don Niceto who never found out anything! A month of republican enthronement, they burned in Madrid not less than twenty churches and I don’t know how many convents, they also caused dead one or another faction. Since then, chaos settled in our squares, so much that Maura had to resign in 1933 as Minister of the Interior; He repaired his attitude contrary to certain articles of the Constitution contrary to his religious faith, but the truth was another: public order went out of hand.
Peace and Concord lasted two days in the New Spain of the regenerators of politics. It was written, it is true, a Constitution that enclosed proclamations, for example to the “integrity” of Spain, but the governments of the Popular Front, rough and embryo of which Pedro Sánchez presides at this time, polarized national life until leading it to the civil catastrophe of 36. Sánchez and his mamporreros are raising Franco from his grave to make him chief and promoter of that drama. Tell this, however: Franco was the last general (the journalist Botín tells very well) that joined the military uprising. In November of the year 30 some ranks asked him to lead the rebellion, but he, after consulting with Millán-Astray and Emilio Mola himself, then the “driver”, he refused to do so, did not even fall into the recklessness of training his cadets of the General Military Academy, for a possible contest.
Sanchismo has short -circuited in the classrooms, large and small, the entire manipulated history of that time. It has appropriated the story and has turned Spain again into a land of bad, the others, and good, themselves. This journalistic chronicle collects the hundredth of what has occurred during the development of that regime that is intended to extol now as a paradigm of all the moral, social and political virtues. This commemoration is its week, tragic for the similarity to what happened exactly ninety -four years ago. Franco is apology, but the socialists and communists are, as before, the great hecatombe women. Remember the two phrases of Maura: “They gave us power” and this one, real, as added: “… but the socialists when they occupy power remain forever.” To confession of part … recognition of a partner. It is the repetition of that drama that ended with about 300,000 dead. The Million was invented by Gironella and have reiterated it to satiety, the socialists and communists of this moment, of course increasing the number of dejected among theirs. Bad idea: the worst, they did not even know how to make war.
