I read recently that the city of Seville, under the Law of Historical Memory, will remove the name of the Avenida Presidente Carrero Blanco Street Gazetteer . Again re-commit the injustice of insult to an iconic figure whose only crime is to have served in Spain, with total loyalty and devotion, to the point of losing his life in the effort, during the time when General Franco ruled. Consider holding a disgrace that this man was "an ogre" as he called the terrorist group ETA, but ... it was for this band of murderers.
is true that Admiral Carrero was an anti during his early military and political life, but who will not be seen after the Republican government fell under the control of Stalin, for the forgetful or uninformed enough to remember that the Russian ambassador in Madrid, Marcel Rosenberg, attended the Council of Ministers meddling in all English subjects with a voice. It is also true that race was a defender of national unity but who can blame him when for example the government of the Generalitat advantage of the weakness of the Central enacted their own legislation that far exceeded its own Statute and Constitution, creating a Catalan army, issuing its own currency and appointing an adviser to Foreign Minister with powers, the Basque and many towns and villages followed the same independent statements. It is also true that the Admiral could joined in the side of General Franco, but who could blame him after learning that many of his colleagues had been killed on board Navy ships no other reason than only having official. And finally, it is also true that it was a deeply religious man, therefore, the unpunished murders of priests, rape of nuns, burning churches and convents and the desecration of graves conducted during the last phase of the republic will occurred, as most of the English horror and disgust that it was difficult to bear.
In his career, impossible to condense in these lines, only a few strokes: He was the author of the report reasoned that rose to Franco for it to desist from any attempt to engage World War II in support of the Germans, despite pressure from Hitler. In 1939 after finishing the civil war, Franco, who already knew from previous occasions, went to the undersecretary of the Prime Minister, in 1941 he was appointed national director of FET y de las JONS where he received more criticism for not doing ever the Fascist salute. In 1947 was in favor of holding a national referendum on the monarchy and declared the official political system of Spain, thus becoming the Franco regime in a transition.
In 1953, with U.S. president General Eisenhower promoted the signing of the Franco-Americans who, despite initial draconian conditions, helped Spain both out of poverty and to begin to be recognized internationally, and now they are so criticized U.S. Bases just remember that once created many jobs work and wealth wherever they settled. In 1956 he began his collaboration with the so-called technocrats, some of them members of Opus Dei, to form his own "political family" as opposed to the Falange, the military and the Democrats, in 1957 the government wins its line, which ended Falangism and Christian Democracy. He opposed the appointment of Don Juan as the successor to the throne, recommending the solution that Franco represented the candidacy of Don Juan Carlos.
Eisenhower in 1959 gets another visit Spain as a democracy more they were giving us the ultimate accolade to facilitate our integration into international organizations. In 1967 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, producing a nearly complete transfer of functions in the part of Franco, his line was politically prudent while the economic continuity accelerated industrial progress. In 1969 returns to be essential for Don Juan Carlos was officially declared heir to the English throne and in 1972 for the Prince was appointed successor to Franco to the Head of State. Its pragmatic policy ended that year, despite domestic opposition to the establishment of trade relations with the Union Soviet and Communist countries.
is in June 1973, its peak power, is appointed Prime Minister, marking the first time that Franco did not accumulate the charge with the Head of State. Henry Kissinger personally tried to renew military agreements with the United States, looking very hard in the negotiations of mutual defense treaties, this, coupled with its refusal to allow the use of English bases to supply the Israelis during the Yom Kippur War led to the Soviet agency Tass to state that " the CIA had killed a Franco of nationalist politician who refuses to comply with Washington's orders blindly . "Almost a sarcasm, praising Soviet Carrero Blanco.
On 20 December the same year he was assassinated in a terrorist attack organized by ETA.
sell for about comments made after his death by people who knew him to summarize his character and thinking:
The former housing minister, José Utrera Molina, in his book Without changing flag, states: " the assassination of Admiral Franco strongly affected not only by personal estimation that he had, but by the expected break in the continuity that this loss represented, assuming that Carrero Blanco will continue its work after his death , but adds Utrera Molina, " however, there's something I write and actually alters substantial other assumptions about the continuity of the regime, shocked when I heard from the lips of the Duchess of Franco, soon after his inauguration as Prime Minister, Admiral had an audience with the then Prince of Spain, who asked him if there was the death of Franco, his loyalty expected of submitting his resignation. Carrero agreed to it, so what Franco considered bound and tied it in fact already broken . "
confirmation of this, the children of Torcuato Fernández-Miranda , Pilar and Alfonso, write about that, "ventured Carrero was not the end, not an obstacle and end up prioritizing their sense of discipline and deep respect the Crown. " Laureano Lopez Rodo, in a statement to La Libre Belgique, attributed to the Admiral to have been " the main architect of the process launched to restore the monarchy and to succeed Franco by the young Prince Juan Carlos ." It is therefore more than surprising that the book "The Queen" by Pilar Urbano, in conversation with Sofia holding, it says,
"Carrero wanted to with the Franco regime, and democracy. What would have happened, had not been assassinated? We do not know. Nor will never know. Sure ... people change, people evolve. Saying what I said, that perhaps we had not come to reign, is what I really think, but it is speculation. And I have no right to judge and condemn race so he did not have time for. However, his line of political thought was that: a monarchy is already established, new-style, to take his legitimacy and nature of the July 18, 1936, the Movement ". Of course Queen Sofia and the admiral did not like. This statement is discussed by the author of the book with the following sentence: " With all due respect, it appears that Queen Sofia, forget, like it or not like it, that the monarchy of Don Juan Carlos I is precisely instituted a monarchy whose legitimacy starts from July 18, 1936 ".
The painter Juan Antonio Morales, in a statement to ABC in January 1974, said: " The admiral was a simple, sober almost to a fault. Everything about him was kindness and honesty. He liked to make good. It was a simple man, so he seemed almost shy. He was a man out of this apparently very serious, but sense of humor. "José Mary Pemán called it "a good man straight. It was one of the few ministers that I do not tuteaba, I could not imagine a familiarly Carrero. Was never angry with anyone at all . "
José María de Porcioles, mayor of Barcelona for many years and supporter of the Catalan League in El Noticiero Universal in Barcelona, 31/XII/1973, recalled: " affable and courteous, always sought a smile and listened quietly with minimal interruption. I wanted to go unnoticed and be absent from all public demonstrations, including those headlines or the limelight of television. inspired confidence and security. "
Carrero Blanco was also a prolific writer both in the technical side, as a naval officer, as a thinker on using the pseudonym Juan de la Cosa, in 1947 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature. Graduated from the Naval War College in Madrid and Paris with high scores, constantly expanding their knowledge and tireless reader, wonder why cause a personage now appears that, without other security than the language that God has given you dare to question his intellectual and view.
believe in the light of the foregoing that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco human could have many defects, significantly less than ordinary mortals, but that his ideals will pushed to the side of Franco passed a government abandoned drift that had proved unable to govern Spain and who had given Moscow the Communists, is not sufficient cause to vilify. His unwavering loyalty to their commanders, and their labors shown to maintain the unity and independence of Spain against foreign interference are virtues overflowing for all your life path. With their hard work, perseverance, dedication, loyalty, honesty and trustworthiness, contributed to the development of a country that rose from the poverty of postwar progress and economic development of the seventies and was placed as the ninth industrial power world.
noteworthy that in the atmosphere of political corruption in which we live and despite more than thirty years he served the State in positions of great responsibility and influence, his character and moral training prevented him rich, as did many others, when in 1973 he was murdered by ETA, left a legacy a modest apartment, which installment was inconclusive, a savings account with an amount that did not exceed 500,000 pesetas and ownership of a small grave.
Sevilla Spain in general and in particular made a mistake and a huge injustice demonstrating their ingratitude to one of the men who worked in the English restore confidence in themselves and worked faithfully to bring us democracy in the figure of King Juan Carlos I. Remove the name of a street Carrero Blanco as a ETA vile it were something more than an embarrassment to all well-born Seville.
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