The rising of 10 August 1932 obliged all the elements on the Spanish right to examine and declare their position in relation to the Republic. Virtually all those who spurned the embrace of overt Catholic Republicanism as incarnate in Alcalá Zamora, whether Carlists, Alfonsists or accidentalists, were agreed that the Republic in anything resembling its present form was unacceptable; their differences centred upon what should replace it and, far more urgently, what course should be adopted in order to transform or overthrow it. To the accidentalists, Sanjurjo's failure proved not the immorality of political violence but its futility in existing circumstances, especially when alternative means were available whereby the Republic's own machinery might be exploited in order to produce a system far removed from the expectations of its founders. The Alfonsists drew the opposite conclusion, arguing that the débâcle of 10 August had happened simply because the Spanish right had lacked unity and militancy, and that if the lesson were learned, the failure need not be repeated. The coexistence of accidentalists and open Alfonsists within Actión Popular, increasingly awkward even before the rising, plainly could not continue much longer.

The Carlists accepted the Alfonsists' ‘catastrophist’ view of general anti-Republican strategy, while remaining critical of the rising. When the Communion's press began gradually to emerge from suspension, it flatly denied Carlist complicity in the revolt, attacked its negative or at best Alfonsist complexion, but applauded it nonetheless as a noble and patriotic gesture.