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270 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1975
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October 2, 2015
Arriba España !
June 25, 2019
Incredibly moving read. What a man of courage, action, and moral fortitude.
"At this solemn moment I venture to formulate a prophecy: the forthcoming struggle, which may not take the form of an election, which may be more dramatic than any electoral struggle, will not be a confrontation of such outdated values as the ones we call the Right and the Left; it will be a confrontation between the grim and menacing Asiatic front of the Russian Revolution in its Spanish incarnation and the national front of our own generation lined up for battle. "
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
(One year and three days before his death)
"Having been condemned to death yesterday, I pray that if it pleases God not to spare me, He may maintain me to the end in the decorus conformity with which I now await it, and that He may judge my soul, not in accordance with my deserts, but according to His infinite mercy [...]
Would mine were the last Spanish blood shed in civil strife. If only the Spanish people, so full of good and lovable qualities, could come to find the fatherland, bread and justice in peace.
I do not think that there is anything more I want to say with regard to my public life. As for my imminent death, I do not welcome it, since it is never pleasant to die at my age, but I await it without protest. May Our Lord accept the elements of sacrifice it contains in insufficient compensation for what selfishness and vanity there has been in much of my life. I forgive with all my heart all those, without exception, who may have harmed or offended me, and I ask all those to forgive me to whom I may owe the reparation of some wrong, be it great or small..."
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
(Last Will and Testament)
"At this solemn moment I venture to formulate a prophecy: the forthcoming struggle, which may not take the form of an election, which may be more dramatic than any electoral struggle, will not be a confrontation of such outdated values as the ones we call the Right and the Left; it will be a confrontation between the grim and menacing Asiatic front of the Russian Revolution in its Spanish incarnation and the national front of our own generation lined up for battle. "
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
(One year and three days before his death)
"Having been condemned to death yesterday, I pray that if it pleases God not to spare me, He may maintain me to the end in the decorus conformity with which I now await it, and that He may judge my soul, not in accordance with my deserts, but according to His infinite mercy [...]
Would mine were the last Spanish blood shed in civil strife. If only the Spanish people, so full of good and lovable qualities, could come to find the fatherland, bread and justice in peace.
I do not think that there is anything more I want to say with regard to my public life. As for my imminent death, I do not welcome it, since it is never pleasant to die at my age, but I await it without protest. May Our Lord accept the elements of sacrifice it contains in insufficient compensation for what selfishness and vanity there has been in much of my life. I forgive with all my heart all those, without exception, who may have harmed or offended me, and I ask all those to forgive me to whom I may owe the reparation of some wrong, be it great or small..."
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
(Last Will and Testament)
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