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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
On 17 July 1936 a repentant ex-Radical deputy, Joaquín Pérez Madrigal, arrived in Pamplona in order to assist at the start of the rising with which he had decided to identify himself. Met by Rodezno and Arellano, he was escorted by them to the Carlist circle in the Hotel La Perla, situated in the city's main square, the Plaza del Castillo. Later he recalled the profound impression which the scene made upon him:
There I was! In the deepest recesses of the cavern. The dreadful former ‘wild-boar’, installed that afternoon in the lair of the fearsome cavedwellers … A host of young men moved hither and thither, issuing and receiving orders. Impatient exclamations, exhortations to action, wise calls for prudence, bellicose clamour and cries anticipating victory … Young priests in the patriotic calling of their rural ministry spend today helping the warriors of tomorrow, while the latter wait their turn to confess.
On a smaller scale this scene was re-enacted in Carlist circles throughout the country, save where, as in Madrid and Barcelona, they had been closed by government order. As the Requeté of Pamplona and the surrounding district mustered in the circle, messengers were sent to Estella, San Sebastian and Bilbao with the final orders for mobilization. News of Fal Conde's agreement with Mola was simultaneously handed to the Andalusian jefe, García Verde, who was in Pamplona waiting for a decision.
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