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... he also became increasingly aware of the dependence of the Falangists on their unsavory allies, the totalitarian governments of Germany and Italy. These realizations culminated in Unamuno's 12 October 1936 speech condemning the fascist cult of death. This time, he was escorted from the hall and dismissed from his post by the forces of the right. Unamuno died on 31 December 1936. Quite incongruously, he was given a Falangist funeral.
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There are variations over the events around the speech, but apparently they were more or less as follows: Following some words by General Millán Astray, the founder of the Spanish Legion, who said that the Basque Country and Catalonia were the cancer of Spain, Unamuno provoked Millán Astray saying that "Spain without the Basque Country and Catalonia would be as useless as a body with a mutilated arm and without one eye." Millán Astray had countless war wounds, including a mutilated arm and only one eye.
Enraged, he shouted a sounding "Death to Intelligence!", which he later confirmed that it was meant to be the "pseudo-intellectuals". The answer of Unamuno was famed as it sentenced:
Venceréis, pero no convenceréis ("You shall win, but you shall not convince").
However, the Falangists had nothing to do with this and the author appears to be much ignorant of what Falange was.
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prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–