page_title: José Ángel Zubiaur Alegre
section_title: Republic and Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: José Ángel Zubiaur Alegre / Republic and Civil War
caption_attribution_description: Español: Título original: Tropas del bando nacional (14/16) Localización: San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa)
context_page_description: José Ángel Zubiaur Alegre was a Spanish right-wing politician. Throughout most of his life he remained active as a Carlist militant and held some positions in the regional Navarrese party executive. In the 1970s he left the movement and contributed to birth of a Navarrista party, Unión del Pueblo Navarro. His career climaxed during the Cortes term in 1967–1971, when he strove to liberalize the regime and gained nationwide recognition. In 1948–1951 and 1983–1987 he served also in the regional Navarrese self-government.
context_section_description: Zubiaur was born to a Carlist family; his father knew personally the claimant Don Jaime and in the early 1910s he was involved in the Miguelist plot in Portugal. José Ángel adopted the Carlist outlook as a natural way of life, especially that also San Martín de Unx was part of the Carlist Navarrese heartland. Already during his early schooling years the boy he was active in Juventudes Jaimistas, a Carlist youth organization; during the Republican period he grew to executive positions within the organization, though information available is confusing. Later Zubiaur admitted having taking part in Traditionalist Pamplonese feasts, though he remained silent on any organizational commitments of the early 1930s. Following the coup of July 1936 he volunteered to the Carlist militia, the requeté, and spent almost 3 years on the front; he served mostly in one of field companies of Radio Requeté, first in Tercio de Navarra and then in Tercio de Lácar. He survived the Biscay, Santander and Asturias campaigns unharmed, until during the Battle of Teruél he suffered frostbites and had to be treated in the Pamplona hospital He finished the wartime career as a sergeant.
  According to some sources already in early 1937 Zubiaur was engaged in Carlist propaganda activities in the Navarrese rearguard. He apparently complied with the Unification Decree and was incorporated into the new Francoist state party, Falange Española Tradicionalista. In late 1938 he was nominated the provincial Navarrese head of the FET propaganda section and at this role he remained active at least until 1939. Some historians consider him a representative of "carlismo colaboracionista", According to some sources he entered Junta Consultiva Nacional of SEU, the new academic organisation set up by the regime.
  Though the member of FET, Zubiaur kept considering Manuel Fal Conde his political leader and protested against exaltaton of Falangism at the expense of Traditionalism. He also took advantage of his position in the emerging Francoist structures to cultivate and promote the Carlist outlook. He presided over local feasts to honor the Traditionalist fallen, called for the Carlist kings to be buried at Escorial and at the Navarrese border officially welcomed remnants of general Sanjurjo, to be laid to grave during a solemn funeral ceremony in Pamplona. His most lasting initiative, however, was setting up Hermandad de Caballeros Voluntarios de la Cruz, a hardly veiled Carlist ex-combatant organisation; it was intended as counter-proposal to the official Delegación Nacional de Excombatientes and was to group former requetés only. In 1939 Hermandad helped to launch two periodical Navarrese feasts, formatted as homages to the Traditionalist fallen and demonstrations of Traditionalist principles: a female pilgrimage to the top of Montejurra and a male pilgrimage to the castle of Javier. Supposed to embody "the spirit of July 18", according to later accounts they were intended as dissident manifestations of genuine patriotism, opposed to Francoist distortion of "espíritu de la Cruzada".
caption: Requetés, 1937
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