Teófilo Braga, who was president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Portugal , wrote before the proclamation of the Republic in their country, about a possible union of Spain and Portugal : "If the Republic in the English Peninsula wants a strong and progressive destination have to follow the separatist tendencies, they are immortal, with a disciplined manner federative pact, by reconstituting the autonomy of small states in the Middle Ages. When the Republic will divided Spain in the Galicia autonomous states of Asturias, Vizcaya, Navarra, Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla la Nueva, Castilla la Vieja and Leon, then only Portugal may establish with it a Federation , having secured their independence against any annexation Iberian then only can be, without obstacles, Covenant States Federal free and Iberian Peninsula. The opposite is absurd , a violence that will not happen without bloodshed, and the result would be destroyed soon after, as it was in 1640. "
And to the English Republicans, Teofilo Braga added:
" The republican regime as the two countries govern themselves, can not, without vitiating its essence, attacking the principle of national autonomy. Thanks to the Republic, Spain will be emancipated, this stifles political Unitarianism , a new blood will flow between different parts of this country, and their heroic energy, artistic and scientific capabilities will find a new incentive. The same Portugal, stunted by sixty years of a liberal bastard, will arise in the republican regime their new awareness of men who will fill a social mission. The two countries will form a European power Confederates, true fulcrum of America or Western Confederation, the Iberian Federation, with a common purpose, will have great international influence on the triple point of scientific, economic and legal.
is an indisputable fact that during the last thirty years, the secession movement in Catalonia and Portugal to the East, has taken great increase. It seemed that the Republic, the latent separatism would be dashed, since the Republic was to be expected it was federal. But to not disturb the foundations of the State has, however, re-energize the Catalan separatism. It would be ridiculous to claim that this movement is artificial. Answer No. a historical reality. Separatism is the answer that the State is given below Caesarian, the unitary state and gendarme. The reasons identified for three centuries the separation of Portugal and the insurrection in Catalonia do that tomorrow, if the English policy does not undergo a radical transformation, and then separate Catalonia Basque Country, Galicia, the Balearic ...
The nation responds to a historic process necessary. Before the world on your unit Finally, before they disappear completely border-great socialist idea, the nation is a step, a part of this great movement of integration in space and time. But what has no reason to be, which inevitably plunges in a moment of crisis is all artificial structure opposite the progressive course of history. It broke up the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was dismembered by the war because there too, as in Spain, the state made it impossible for the free national coordination. In Spain, which in sum is what remains of an old empire, is reserved a similar end, following the breakup process, if not crushed the state to do on its ruins a structure focused forward and not backward , as now.
The English revolutionary aspiration should not be that one day, perhaps not far away, following its current momentum, the Iberian Peninsula is converted into a mosaic of Balkan rivalries and armed struggles fostered by foreign imperialism, but on the contrary , should aim to seek the free and spontaneous reincoproración Portugal to the Iberian great unity "...
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