Manuel Aznar Zubigaray

Defunct He was director of some of the most important Spanish newspapers of the time, like El Sol and La Vanguardia Española, the latter under the Francoist regime.

He was married to María de las Mercedes Gómez-Acedo y Villanueva (sister of the footballer Domingo Acedo)[1] in Hendaye and had five sons.

As a young man he was a firm supporter of Basque nationalism, a contributor to the radical newspaper La Tradición Navarra and the editor of Euzkadi.

In 1914, he staged his El jardín del mayorazgo theatre play, which is not accessible nowadays, and that his rival Indalecio Prieto described as strongly anti-Spanish.

[4] During the Republican period, he was part of the establishment and supported conservative politicians such as Miguel Maura, moving later to the centrist Democratic Centre Party of Portela Valladares.

[6] He is still a controversial person in Spain with critics such as Gregorio Morán, Basque nationalist Iñaki Anasagasti or his socialist rival Indalecio Prieto and supporters such as the Count of Rodas, the lawyer Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cabañate, The Arab League or Manuel Fraga that praised him when he died as a great diplomat and journalist.