Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney

Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney (1875 – 1936) Spanish political theorist and journalist. He was among the young Spanish intellectuals deeply affected by their country's humiliating defeat in Spanish-American War of 1898, along with José Martínez Ruiz ("Azorín"), Pío Baroja and others forming the literary Generation of '98. Maeztu became one of the most prominent defenders of the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera, and called for Spain to "recover its 16th-century sense of Roman Catholic mission." Maeztu founded the right-wing, monarchist Acción Española movement in 1931.On October 29, 1936, Maeztu was murdered by Republican soldiers in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.