Criticism
In October 1942, the news of the safe arrival of Aguirre to Uruguay reached London. In the Basque World Congress of Paris (1956), he would thank the labour of the Basque National Council, but his politics will not follow Irujo's Constitution.
It would be the Socialist Indalecio Prieto who would harshly criticize Irujo's irredentism. He remarks how the Cantabrian ports of Castro-Urdiales, Laredo and Santoña, the industry of Reinosa would be part of Euzkadi. He likens Irujo's map to that of Hitler's and shows his surprise because Laburdi and Zuberoa, areas of the French Basses Pyrenees where Basque is spoken are left out of the new state. In the same Mexican newspaper, Julio Jauregui denied the accusations of separatism, interpreting Irujo's foreproject as a confederal blueprint. Jauregui remarks that the democratic will of the new annexed citizens would be necessary, just as some instances of Logroño had shown interest in the Basque autonomy projects.
After the dissolution of the BNC by Aguirre, Irujo would dedicate himself to literature and a project of a Iberian Community of Nations including Portugal, that did not had much echo.
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