A catalan catholic regionalist fleeing Franco: Josep Maria Trias Peitx’s Exile in France

• Autores: Gemma Caballer Albareda
• Localización: Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas / Wolfram Kaiser (aut.), Piotr H. Kosicki (aut.), 2021, ISBN 978-94-6166-422-8, págs. 137-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 24 January 1939, Josep Maria Trias Peitx arrived at the port of Port-Vendres, in the south of France, aboard the Sirocco, a ship belonging to the French Embassy. Trias Peitx was one of approximately 440,000 refugees who left Spain during that winter.¹ He had been a member of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (UDC) since 1931, when he had broken with the family’s political tradition of Carlism and its advocacy of a confessional state, and was the party’s secretary-general during the Spanish Civil War. He worked intensely for the rescue of those persecuted for reasons of conscience during the conflict,...