Juan Emiliano Carulla was an Argentine physician and nationalist politician.
11 Facts About Juan Carulla
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Juan Carulla was most prominent under the military regime in power during the early 1930s.
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Juan Carulla enlisted in the French Army as a field doctor and became convinced that the left had done nothing to help the war effort.
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Juan Carulla showed strong support for Germany and a preference for tradition and heredity as the bases of government.
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Juan Carulla became associated with the followers of Leopoldo Lugones and, along with Rodolfo Irazusta, helped to found and edit the journal La Nueva Republica in 1927.
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Juan Carulla produced his own journal Bandera Argentina which campaigned strongly against female suffrage, dismissing it as "insanity".
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Juan Carulla was to form part of the Maurras-inspired elite, alongside the Irazusta brothers, Ernesto Palacio, Bruno Jacovella and others, who took up their pens in defence of the new regime and effectively supplied it with an ideology.
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Juan Carulla was involved in a number of rightist groups, all of which were pro-Uriburu, including the Republican League, a group patterned after Action Francaise, the National Party established by Alberto Vinas and Carlos Silveyra in 1930, and the Agrupacion Teniente General Uriburu set up in 1932.
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Juan Carulla was strongly interested in the cultural implications of the Spanish language, and in his book Genio de la Argentina he wrote that the common language formed a strong basis for close links with Spain, thus endorsing the Hispanidad ideas championed by Manuel Galvez.
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Juan Carulla further believed in the importance of the family and looked to Francisco Franco in his desire to establish a "juvenile Falange" in which young men would be organised at the disposal of the government.
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Juan Carulla abandoned his fascist sympathies in the late 1940s and played little role in public life thereafter.