"Hermanos o extranjeros"la postura de ABC ante el nacionalismo catalán durante la Segunda República

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The objective of this article is to learn and explain the keys of Spanish nationalism that characterized the political conception of the newspaper ABC throughout the five years of the Republic, as well as the elaboration and formulation of the discourse, which, as the channel for transmission of that nationalism and exponent of a peculiar reading of the new regime, served to defend its own positions and to combat those of its adversaries in the arena of public opinión. This work thus approaches the position taken by the monarchist daily with regard to the fundamental facts making up the «Catalonian Question» -specially the elaboration and approval of the Estatuto for Catalonia and its suspensión after the events of October, 1934- and the evolution it underwent in the different stages of the Republic. A clear picture is drawn of the strong opposition of ABC to both Catalonian nationalism and republican reformism, and of the solution it favoured for the regional problem.