Manuel Hedilla
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Born | Manuel Hedilla Larrey July 18, 1902 Ambrosero, Cantabria, Kingdom of Spain |
Died | February 4, 1970 | (aged 67)
Nationality | Spanish |
Occupation(s) | Mechanic, politician |
Notable work | Testamento politico de Manuel Hedilla (1972) |
Political party | FE de las JONS |
Manuel Hedilla Larrey (July 18, 1902 – February 4, 1970) was a Spanish political figure who was a leading member of the Falange and an early rival for power towards Francisco Franco. He was a mechanic by trade.[1]
Early life
Hedilla was born in a village in
Falangist involvement
In Madrid, Hedilla took up a job as an engineer at a Catholic dairy farm
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Falangism |
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Clash with Franco
Although nominally the Falangist leader in
In the aftermath of the event Hedilla secured his own leadership of the Falange two days later although his triumph was short-lived as Franco checked his power by immediately
Autobiography controversy
A controversial episode occurred towards the end of his life when Hedilla hired pro-Falange journalist Maximiano Garcia Venero to write his memoirs. The volume that they produced gave a somewhat critical interpretation of Franco during the civil war and, under pressure from the government, Hedilla decided against publishing. Garcia Venero then sought to have the volume published outside Spain by the leftist Ruedo Ibérico, a publisher controlled by the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP) and the book appeared in 1967 under the title La Falange en la guerra de España: la Unificación y Hedilla. However given that the publisher was avowedly left-wing a companion volume by Herbert R. Southworth, highly critical of Hedilla, appeared simultaneously. Garcia Venero and his subject fell out over the issue with Hedilla bringing a lawsuit and the writer publishing a new book in Spain in 1970 that was much more critical of Hedilla. By 1972 Hedilla's heirs, who gained ownership of the original manuscripts in the court case, were allowed to publish it and other writings under the title Testamento politico de Manuel Hedilla.[15]
References
- ^ Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 284
- ^ Aristotle A. Kallis, The Fascism Reader, Routledge, 2003, p. 427
- ^ Kallis, Fascism Reader, p. 427
- ^ Kallis, Fascism Reader, p. 427
- ^ Kallis, Fascism Reader, p. 427
- ^ E. de Blaye, Franco and the Politics of Spain, Penguin Books, 1976, p. 140
- ^ C.P. Blamires, World Fascism - A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, p. 220
- ^ Beevor, The Battle for Spain, p. 284
- ^ Paul Preston, Franco, London: 1995, pp. 261-6
- ^ Beevor, The Battle for Spain, p. 285
- ^ Beevor, The Battle for Spain, p. 285
- ^ Preston, Franco, p. 268
- ^ Beevor, The Battle for Spain, p. 286
- ^ De Blaye, Franco, p. 141
- ^ Stanley G. Payne, "Fascism in Western Europe", Walter Laqueur, Fascism: a Reader's Guide, Pelican Books, 1979, pp. 315-6