Spanish Falange

FROM its inception the Spanish Phalanx has been a Fascist group. Its founder was José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a handsome and reckless young lawyer who could never forget that his father had been a great leader of Spain. When José Antonio and his friends issued a magazine to publicize their ideas (the first and only number appeared on March 16, 1933) they called it El Fascio. José Antonio declared: "We are Fascists, because we find our origins in Ancient Roman Mussolinian principles; we are National Socialists, because in National Socialist doctrines vibrate our own faith and doctrine. But we are, above all, Spaniards.