Spaniards, you must forgive me if I break into the peace of your homes to share with you the worries of the world in which we live, but without it the rapport or the solidarity of those who sail on the same ship would not fit. What does it matter if it is resistant if the storm increases? All navigation requires the unity, solidarity and discipline of those embarked under the wise direction of their captain. Difficult was the navigation that we started together and the days of bonanza are always followed by the corresponding storm, the world is like that and we have to subject ourselves to it.
In the year 1961 that we are going to initiate the National Movement and the Regime founded with the Crusade, they reach their indisputable fulfillment at the end of the twenty-five years in full political action and performance of the principles that constitute its foundation, its substance and its motive force. A quarter of a century sailing in the midst of the most critical, most complex and unstable historical juncture of modern times in which so many superstructures of every order that seemed unshakeable have collapsed. A quarter of a century following a rectilinear route, attentive exclusively to the supreme interests of our nation in the face of concupiscence and incomprehension of political tendencies and schools, which still cling to outdated doctrinal schemes. A quarter of a century of permanent service to the cause of the free world, which has already been recognized in the most solvent international media, was not, however, duly valued and reciprocated. A quarter of a century of manifest progress in the foundation and development of our institutions, in our economic and social order, in our system of public representation and in the effective participation of the people in the management and administration of the interests of the community. A quarter of a century illuminating new horizons to the political right that must always sit on the master and irreplaceable line of natural law, must also open appropriate legal channels to the progressive impulse of man in his social projection, forming a natural framework of the new realities political and social that this same progressive impulse engenders and promotes, we have the consolation of having harmonized, as Pius XII advised, the effectiveness and dynamics of our society, with the statics of the traditions and the free act with common solidarity. The distance between the point of departure and the destination was so great and the obstacles such that only with the Faith placed in the cause of our cause and trust in the help of God could he accept such a high and grave responsibility. All my will, my thoughts and my energies have been consecrated to them. Who receives the honor and accepts the weight of the leadership at no time can legitimately accept the relief or rest, has to consume its existence in the vanguard of the founding company for which he was called by the voice and adherence of his people, rooting and perfecting the whole raised system. It was not only a question of bridging the flood of a historical crisis that dragged down the last remains of a political system and a State, but of establishing a system, of creating a new State faithful to the living and working tradition and to the current demands of our destiny that will be guaranteed for the future to the extent that we serve the present with loyalty and effectiveness.
What a great majority of Spaniards have not known and new generations ignore was the true state of the nation after more than a century of misgovernment in its aspects; spiritual, social and economic. The ups and downs and the disintegration that the political system engendered that together with the lack of collective ideals limited the horizon of each Spaniard, to the selfish contemplation of their own case while the degraded and impoverished country was precipitated by the slope of its disintegration. In the absence of permanent and stable moral rules, in that climate of investment of values and dissolution of everything that redirects and unites towards a common enterprise and the simultaneous theoretical exaltation of the most radical and solvent individualism, the spiritual gave way to the supremacy of the material, the consciousness of homeland gave way to internationalism and the providentialist sense of history was replaced by the materialist dialectic. Marx will reduce to pseudoscientific theory this reality of that European social world and will shake it as a battle flag. This is how the process of subversion began on a universal scale. Without the triumph of our crusade, what would have been of an indecisive and vacillating world that tolerates that the avant-garde of the adversary encamped with weapons and baggage in their most decisive nuclei of resistance, of the defense of Europe against the most numerous enemy compact and better equipped than It is faced with Christian civilization. If we had the fortune and the clear vision to face this situation twenty-five years in advance, we can not, however, confine ourselves to a clumsy selfishness that would end up rousing us, as other peoples like us, even our own blood, Lovers of freedom and justice live threatened by the same evils that we experience, and if they do not react in time or God does not remedy them, they will fall into the abyss in which so many civilized nations of Europe precipitated, enslaved behind the curtain. of steel. That the evil they suffer is evidently political is clear, that the situation is frankly serious no one can doubt it, but that it has a solution is also true. In none of the threatened countries, except in Cuba, the situation is worse than the one we went through. If ours had a solution, the same can have that which affects others, if they know how to analyze their true causes and are firmly resolved to give them an effective and adequate solution. What you can not do, if you want to survive, is try to stop the clock of the story at a certain time. Pretending to galvanize a certain state of politics when it imperiously demands its renewal. The policy that is not renewed is a fixed-term policy that dies. If we turn from the internal evils of the West to consider the external threat, we must proclaim it bluntly: communism is war, the facts admit of no other interpretation. The very concept of cold war, as understood by those who coined it, no longer has any meaning because it is something quite different in its entity and in its concrete results that is in clear development. Communism has unleashed the revolutionary war, therefore for him peace - well, what we call peace - is nothing but war by other means and by other procedures. These means and procedures of the revolutionary war have no more limitation than the one that at every moment imposes and demands the utility of the own aims of their promoters. The fact that in their judgments or statements do not count before pronouncing with this phenomenon, is practically and socially irresponsible. If for the reasons that it is without this essential and determining fact, in fact, it is a collaborator, unconscious, it can be, but very effective of communism. Currently, no country is free of subversive activities. Never in history did an event of a similar nature take place. The universality of the conflict is as manifest as it coincides with the physical limits of the planet. At the same time, the new communication techniques have achieved such perfection, so much power and so useful mechanisms and procedures of penetration and recruitment that allow this universal subversive action to reach the most independent and better defended and protected areas of the population until reaching the goal. area of family and personal privacy. Everything is used as a point of departure, support, vehicle or instrument for the struggle. There was never a massive use of forces of all kinds like the one we register today. Undeniably it is a war by totalitarian definition. It is all the material, moral and spiritual factors that make up the human personality and the historical personality of the countries that are subject to the pressure of communism. He acts from a base and behind a steel curtain in front of which the social and political organization of liberal democratism is no longer ineffective, as the experience has been confirming, but clearly counterproductive. Spain that knew and defeated international communism, the only conclusive defeat that it has suffered to date, continues to excite its desire for revenge but in the face of it we maintain our triumph, translating into reality our social postulates and not lowering our guard always attentive to their maneuvers . All this leads us to a conclusion supported by five decades of peace, fruitful work, unity and continuity as the Spanish people did not know in more than two hundred years. The legitimacy of the Regime, the stability and effectiveness of its institutions and the immanent vitality of the doctrine that nourishes our action and our conduct. We have come to constitute in the world a transcendent fact, that if one day, due to bad information, it could awaken criticisms, today we won the admiration and respect of the most. From this admiration and respect is a good proof of the credit open to Spain in the most important international organizations, both economic and technical and political, a clear consequence of our solvency in all orders. Today being Spanish is again an important title in the world.
As regards the defense of the West, we now represent an irreplaceable and essential sum, Spain in this aspect is important not only for its geographical situation and characteristics that constitute it in the vital center of the adequate logistic development of said device but for its thirty millions of inhabitants, for their stability and political health, for their inner peace, for their sensitivity and resistance invulnerable to the most covert attempt of penetration of communism or their fellow travelers and for experience, scientific and technical preparation and exceptional virtues of his armies. But it is particularly clear and imperative that to govern properly, within the current situation, it is essential a special sensitivity to perceive and react to the situation the game and the variants of these factors. And being in possession of a political doctrine about the permanent and fundamental of which it is not lawful to abdicate or deviate. A system, a body of doctrine that has the virtue as all systems complete to give us the key with which to operate without risk of serious errors and with the greatest possibilities of success in the concrete and circumstantial issues. A doctrine that has resolved this set of essential purposes for politics, economy or administrative technique, the army or public representation bodies. A doctrine that must be the invariable north, a political doctrine that upon being received becomes and becomes a way of being with its specific and always moral way of acting. Here is one of the most transcendental teachings and contributions of our National Movement. Having served this conception of the political, having placed in the forefront of their concerns and enlucimiento of all their activities the development and conservation of a doctrine and common heritage of the Spanish people for the moment of its objective and historical validity. If there were not many other essential functions that correspond to the National Movement within the framework of our basic institutions, the ones we have just indicated would suffice to maintain it as the cornerstone of our system. In the National Movement resides the political function, admitting the discussion on this point would be as much as doubting its own legitimacy. The Movement's permanent tasks are to maintain the Fundamental Principles and nurture their development, defend and strengthen the national unity that is not a whim but a historical necessity. Constitute the political organization of peace progressively improving the framing of society in order to public representation, it is essential note of the regime its representative character. Prepare the projection in time of the national revolution that is not a revolution that passes but a revolution that lasts and marches. The present hour is lived by the Spaniards for the future. It is true that the glorious heritage of our national tradition can not be rejected because the people who did so would commit suicide in spirit. The tradition should inspire the task of setting the Spanish tomorrow, build on stable foundations their conquests, encourage their institutions and mark them with the trace of their peculiar originality, but all this is far from the simplistic solution here nothing happened. A quarter of a century is too long a time for Spaniards to be able to stop and look back. History does not recede, so today's task is to create the conditions that make that continuity viable and lasting. The imperative of this hour is of a categorically instituting sign. The deflagration of the Fundamental Principles of the National Movement has had the transcendental significance of having fixed the body of political doctrine in which the true and inalienable nature of the national state is concretely embodied. The Movement includes all men of good will who are faithful to principles and discipline, the Movement is not a hermetic organization, it is a community with a spirit of service in which minorities unaffordable to discouragement are assigned to the task of assembling the sentinel, safeguard the vitality of the doctrine and its projection and its permanence in the future. In the Movement itself lies ultimately that continuity does not suffer breakdown. For us everything that is happening in the world fits into the picture of our repeated and ancient predictions. One of the central concerns of our policy was to warn of the dangers inherent in certain decisions and misunderstandings, if they could have been taken into account and there would be no need to rectify or some problems would have worsened to the extremes we know today. Referring specifically to a certain area of the African continent and Hispanic-America we had been pointing out that trying to turn the tide in those countries opposing natural currents, wanting to force dependencies and subsidies that countries loathe was to act against self-interest and sow the seeds of resentment and hatred. A new world we anticipated was already in motion many years ago. Nations, like peoples, rebel against injustice and misery. A new era struggles to break through, or is welcomed and channeled or will end up overthrowing what opposes its new nature. And as for North Africa, I have repeatedly insisted on an express way, in that it constitutes the back of Europe, which gives it a special significance. Its location in the Mediterranean area requires, by virtue of the geopolitical imperatives of maximum density, that there is no contrast of interests between the countries on both sides. Being mutual the interest of the association, who invalidates it will have inflicted a very serious damage of difficult repair to the western possibilities in itself. That is why we raised the alarm by denouncing the intentions of the Soviet agents to penetrate these areas in the midst of xenophobia and the exacerbated ultra-nationalisms that try to ignite the war and destroy the understanding between the parties. We were fully aware of the danger of this penetration as it was an objective of maximum interest to Russia. The anticipated hurricane has been unleashed in the Afro-Asian world and in North Africa the armament and the aids facilitated by Soviet Russia will end up altering the peace and independence of their peoples. The support of Moscow to underdeveloped countries and of agitated nationalistic effervescence always has a political price for those who request or accept it. Experience tells us that the prey that Russia does not it abandons until its annihilation, through the system of military and economic aid a network of agents is spread throughout the country to frame the natives, those bought or those subject to their obedience. The military expenditures that they stimulate impoverish the country and place it in a state of ruin and the economic crisis, the workers' strike and the revolutionary movements that they provoke and control end up breaking the traditional policy and establishing a satellite communist regime. So it is happening in all the meridians where Russia has placed her hand or placed her letter. Today I reiterate what I told you two years ago, our nation because of its location on the spur of Europe that under the waters of the strait joins the African continent and those of the Canarian archipelago in the proximity of its Atlantic coast and our Sahara has the historical responsibility of constituting the advanced sentinel of this geographical age, which, if it is transcendental for the West, is vital for our nation. You can be sure that in this sentinel we will never lower the flag because that Atlantic coast constitutes one of the objectives that polarizes the appetites of the Kremlin for the involvement of Europe.
Another field of maneuver preferred by the Soviet machination is Hispanic-America its gigantic potential resources and its population of two hundred million inhabitants are in their sights. For those two hundred million Latin Americans who populate the twenty nations of the New World in which Spain lives and continues with the moral authority granted to us by being and feeling brothers, having; the same language, the same blood, the same Faith and the same history, our greeting and our best wishes. More than eleven million dollars has been invested by the communist movement in Hispanic America with the revealing circumstance that at least nine of these eleven million are collected in America itself. There are four central or propaganda supply centers, activists and special agents ready to move where their presence is considered most necessary. Weekly, the Moscow stations transmit more than a hundred hours for Spanish-America and newspapers and magazines, direct and declared organs of the Communist Party exceed the figure of one hundred and forty. The Soviet embassies are in fact true headquarters with hundreds of agents devoted to propaganda, the pace of penetration is today much more than before. The facts that we know are the exact reflection of this progressive and ascending rhythm. Within the climate of those nations in which a latent tension is accused, finds the agitprop of communism international the broth of his ideal crop. For the battle between the West and the East Russia has been creating nerve centers in these countries that, like those in North Africa with respect to Europe, constitute in a certain way their location in the rear of the United States. We wish for the good of Hispanic-America that we want free and strong that the free peoples to which it corresponds very particularly to prevent these countries from falling under the iron hand of Moscow help them to find the way of progress and peace. However, the solution has to start from the same peoples of America and America, the will to save is necessary, if we are not willing to sacrifice ourselves for an ideal it matters little that others help us. The dilemma of liberalism-communism that so favors this is not true, there are others more effective than the one that Spain undertook twenty-five years ago. The Spanish experience is already a historical fact worthy of being studied with a spirit of understanding. We believe that it contains principles, discoveries and possibilities that transcend our national orbit.
Only one purpose encourages my words, the greatness and freedom of Hispanic-America. With growing concern, we have been following the steps of those commands of slave imperialism along the paths that more than four hundred years ago marked for the Faith of Christ a race of missionaries and heroes. Some time ago we gave the warning touch to notice that in the 1935 minutes of the old committee was already indicated in an express way, as a more favorable field for the expansion of communism, to the young republics of Hispanic origin with their masses of emigrants and their economic processes without stabilizing. What Spain suffered, we do not want to see it in what our sister nations are. If we contemplate the perspectives of our internal situation from the summit of the year that ends, they can not be more promising. This year of 1960 has been for us a year of peace and fruitful activity especially marked by the long years of peace and activity that providence has granted us. Today I can say that in the year that has ended we have established the firmest foundations of our freedom and our economic independence, goal that we have been pursuing since the very days of our crusade. One of the most ardent characteristics of my whole life has been not to live to the day but to prevent and prepare the future. This meant that from the very days of our crusade I was disturbed by the serious problems that peace would present to us. The liberation that victory would achieve for our people would not be truly effective as long as we had not conquered the economic freedom that Spain had been losing for half a century of abandonment. The permanent deficit of our balance of payments with the exterior, impeding the progress and development of the nation, created us with great difficulties a serious situation of dependency. The future appeared to us with very serious characters since to the previous permanent situation it was necessary to add the loss and backwardness of three years of war. Spain was totally unsupplied and even the best prepared economically Spaniards judged that they could not get up without the help of a powerful foreign loan impossible to reach in a largely adverse world also engaged in a terrible war. The stabilization plan adopted by the government in the second half of the previous year gave more than the desired results, maintaining stable domestic prices and consequently consolidating the purchasing power of wages and incomes. Firmness of the quotation of our currency in foreign markets at the level of its official parity and change of sign in our chronically deficit balance of payments. Of a foreign trade of seven hundred million dollars following a favorable curve we have exceeded the figure of one thousand three hundred million in the year that ends, a final victory that has been prepared by the battles of wheat, cotton, tobacco, wood, of livestock, poultry and irrigation in the agricultural field, as well as the progressive industrialization with its intensification of naval constructions, fertilizer factories, cement, refineries, tractor, truck and automobile factories among many other achievements that expand our economy allowed us to create more than two million jobs. The operation of stabilization was made possible by that preparation that we have made over the past five decades and that has been the basis of the next and great stage of economic expansion that we have to undertake widely, continuing that Spanish policy that has multiplied the wealth national, has lifted our homeland from secular inertia, lack of confidence in its resources and pessimistic stagnation. The year 1960 has been for us a good year that Spain deserved after two decades of tension and struggle in the midst of a hostile world. Never has our economy been so strong and never as we can now contemplate with such confidence and hope for the future, so we can undertake the huge and suggestive task of long-term programming that will come to suppose the culmination of government plans conceived from the very dawn of the Crusade. Today, with the rest and serenity that gives us the firmness of our regime and the health of our economy, we can undertake the methodical study of the various economic sectors according to techniques and experiences that are proven worldwide, which allow the elaboration of a program for the best development. of the national economy on the basis of its stability, and with the aim of raising the standard of living of the Spaniards. This attention that the government gives to the aforementioned economic problems is ultimately driven by a deep social concern that is the distinctive sign of the regime's policy. Economic progress would be of little use if it were not linked to the improvement of all spheres of Spanish society, particularly the economically weaker ones. Our social legislation, which is for the movement its greatest timbre of glory, has been enriched this year with the law that assigns a series of fiscal resources to concrete social purposes, and also for the first time in the history of our estate the state suppresses a series of indirect taxes that weighed on all classes. The public treasury has come to place itself at the service of the social policy of the new state, embarking on a path in which decisive steps will have to be taken in the future. In this way, our social policy firmly based on the economic and curdled in fertile realities is open to promising hopes in contrast to the results of the false social policy of Marxist sign engendering only of hatred and misery that reached its demagogic and tragic culmination in the ill-fated days of the republic when the Spanish people were plunged every day into greater misery mingled with blood, mud and tears, a phrase that made one of the most outstanding republican gyrfalcons sadly famous. It would be otherwise illusory to think about the good results of a policy if it is not accompanied by good administration. In order for the complex state apparatus to function harmoniously and not be delayed, agile and competent bodies are indispensable. The public administration has to be incorporated into modern organic and functional techniques, the old concept of obstructive and retardant administration due to its excessive bureaucratism has to be replaced by an authentic business and service sense. Through these courses, our administrative reform is proceeding, whose progress continues day by day. But it is not enough to reform institutions if you do not take care to prepare the men who serve you. The change of administrative structure also demands a decisive improvement of the official. It is not enough to demand the indispensable and generic preparation prior to your appointment must be ensured after the specific training appropriate to their specific task and seek the precise stimuli so that it does not get lost between abandonment and routine. The Center for Training and Improvement of Officials, will be an effective instrument for this ambitious purpose, in which the best people will be trained to manage public interests. Its new headquarters recently inaugurated in the building of the old University of Alcalá de Henares contains a deep symbolism. The task of modernizing the public administration is thus rooted in the great teaching tradition of Alcalá rich in men who dedicated their lives to the service of the country. But a work of government would not be perfect without direct and personal contact with the specific national peculiarities, which will always be the best channel to give proper satisfaction to the legitimate desires of the various Spanish regions.
Only by going through the towns of Spain can one have exact knowledge of the centuries-old neglect in which many Spanish regions have remained submerged, and that still, despite the effort developed and the undeniable improvement in the quality of life, they lack the natural means to survive, very poor people, located in inhospitable places on arid lands impossible to improve that a modern world can not conceive or accept. The rationalization of these regions, the improvement and transformation of what is feasible, the concentration of some peoples, the transplantation of others to new irrigated areas or industrial centers is an imperative of our time. In this work we have not lost a single day, if today we can face on more scale with these problems is because we have the work developed in these years for land consolidation and transformation plans for regions such as Galicia and Jaén. The multiplication by the surface of Spain of small irrigations and the repopulation and redemption of regions as poor as that of Las Urdes, giving us the lesson of experience, opens up a great horizon of illusions. The economic and social development plans of the provinces initiated more than ten years ago and that the unions sponsor facilitate the concrete study of the problems and that many of the small secular abandonments have already been corrected. If we think only that 56% of our population carries the life of a poor field when in most nations the rural population moves between 16 and 25%, the importance of stabilization and the creation of new permanent jobs. If we want to lighten our field and put it in conditions similar to that of Foreign. Here again, as for the very existence of Spain, the creative fecundity of our regime is indispensable. But not only of material goods man lives, and the many efforts made in agricultural fields and the stones of public works whose inaugurations follow one year after another we have to unite those other efforts to whom the spiritual and cultural order we are dedicated. The creation of schools, the multiplication of educational centers and labor institutes, the creation of new churches and the installation of seminars have followed a pace unknown in previous times.
In another order of events, the trip that I made last spring through Catalonia and the Balearic Islands with a long and pleasant stay in Barcelona enabled us to effectively monitor the needs and aspirations of those provinces, the problems connected with their political and economic life could to be examined closely by my government that there met twice in plenary session and several in delegated commissions. Specifically for Catalan life, two events of singular importance took place throughout the year: the enactment of the special law appendix of Catalonia on the one hand and the approval of the municipal charter of Barcelona on the other. The solution given by the law of bases of 1888 to the problem of the civil code of the country required the formation of appendices for foreign legislations. The honor of giving top to such an imposing work, seemed reserved to our regime that with the new appendix in union of those already approved, and of those that are subject to the examination of the Cortes, comes to rectify once again the Frenchified tendency of the liberal century, avoiding traditional rights obedient to characteristic principles that strengthen family and patrimonial stability are diluted by lack of fixity and end up being absorbed by criteria of Napoleonic inspiration.
With an anticipation of twenty years, we come to be in the vanguard and division of the historical currents, in a way that we would have to make clear with the hostility of the enemies and at the same time with the incomprehension, if not the hostility too, of those who natural law were to be our friends. This explains the particularity of the situations we have gone through, but heaven wanted to reward the sincerity of our purpose and the sacrifices of the Spanish people. Today we can say that in our organic democracy and in our national trade unionism we have adequate solutions for the political constitution needs of the modern world. Healthy political life in a civilized and cultured people requires a supreme representative body in the state so that society is present in the preparation of laws so that it can lend its assistance to government tasks by means of contribution, criticism and contrast and so that the scale of guarantees of order is closed legal action against outbreaks and arbitrary practices. Efficiency also prescribes systematically promoting the birth and further development of the autonomous organisms of collective life that serve cooperation in the task of achieving common goals and that entrust the care of their own interests to the interested parties as much as possible. . Moreover, if in all aspects of the human good one has to try to take advantage of the demanded and noble vocations, in which special aptitude conditions are denounced, it must be procured with regard to political vocations because of its exceptional and high character. rank. The healthy political life of a civilized and cultured people also demands a regime of rule of law and not of any system of norms, but precisely of a right conceived for the realization and service of the moral values of Christianity. That is where our organic democracy and our national syndicalism are inaugurated and ready for higher achievements, giving a spiritual and de facto lie to those who have tried to question our political system.
On the other hand, in vain will be required to promote the life of autonomous bodies where the interested parties are given the care and attention of their own conveniences if the means are not arbitrated so that those organs can fulfill their mission. There are in all the free villages those gigantic union centrals assuming the management and the representation of the interests and desires of so many millions of men and of so varied character that without the concurrence to the preparation of the laws and to the conformation of the great efforts of social, economic or cultural policies are deprived of the only means of carrying out their tasks. In all countries trade unionism needs access to the state without resorting to maneuvers, violence or subterfuge alien to its own nature and for the public good to stop being based contradictorily on division, class struggle and erroneous assumptions . The state needs to seek its broadest social base of support in unionism, in the family and in the municipality, and a valid form of relationship in collaboration with society. Neither the broadest recognition of the right to exist, nor collective bargaining, nor mutual welfare and technical services can suffice for unionism that needs more. Trade unionism needs to penetrate and establish itself directly on the platform of decisions and political initiatives of the state, be responsible if it is to be able to serve and not disappoint the trust that is deposited in it and the hopes and hopes it awakens. Only in this way can the face of modern social life change and, in addition, it will gain these modalities of action of the highest political rank.
The role that has corresponded to Spain we are covering it with the best spirit and with the best will, we ask God that is the one that ultimately decides the fate of the people that in this next year of 1961 continue dispensing their help to our country to to preserve unity and to serve the country justice, and also to have in its hand the world that needs it so much. As far as we are concerned, let us remain unconditionally loyal to these permanent slogans; religious unity, social unity and political unity, firm pillars of our peace, our greatness and our freedom. Go Spain!
FRANCISCO FRANCO
6, Felipe. 2018, August, 24. Christmas message of S. Francisco Franco. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/m47eZif_2r8
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