Jose Maria Gil Robles Quotes
We must reconquer Spain … We must give Spain a new unity, a new spirit, a totalitarian polity. … It is necessary to defeat socialism inexorably. We must found a new state, purge the fatherland of judaising Freemasons. … What does it matter if we have to shed blood! … We need full power, and that is what we demand
Incredibly enough, Gils Robles was only right of center with outright Fascist Nazi groups active in Spanish politics. One of the propaganda myths of the Spanish right at the time was that the poor economy and the Basque and Catalan separatist movements were the result of the activity of the Masons and Jewish influences. Also,Confederacion Espanola, de Derechas Automomas his call for a totalitarian government was typical of the right wing of the time whop distrusted democracy completely.
Jose Maria Gil Robles, 1898-1980, Spanish Minister of War & Rightist Leader, Founder, Confederacion Espanola, de Derechas Automomas, Speech, Madrid, 1933, See {45532} ]
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See {611364} for more views of this rightist leader of the time.
See Huey Long for a similar point of view.
All Spanish newspapers were required to carry this slogan on their mastheads.
Ironically, the fascist organizations that did form in America did just that. The American Firsters claimed patriotism motivated them to support Hitler and Father Coughlin and his fascist movement was his own version of Christianity—one which the Roman Catholic Church was so opposed to that they prohibited him from appearing on the radio with his virulent preaching. He was one of several who “hijacked” American Christianity not unlike the way radical Muslims would later in the century hijack Islam.
Both of these famous Americans were admirers of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. They both accepted medals from the German dictator. And both of them were apologists for German aggression and urged the United States not to side with England and to stay neutral in the War. The next year Germany declared war on the United States.
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José María Gil-Robles y Gil-Delgado is a Spanish politician. He was formerly a Member of the European Parliament in the European People's Party group, and was President of the European Parliament from 1997 to 1999.
