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After the fall of the Ibáñez government, some prominent members of the committee formed within the Catholic University and the Renovation group of the University of Chile, and that some time before, had begun to attend the meetings of the "Conservative Propaganda Assembly", They agreed to join the Conservative Party, thus creating the "Conservative Youth."
It is here where emblematic names appear, such as: Bernardo Leighton, Eduardo Frei, Rafael Agustín Gumucio, Jorge Rogers, Manuel Antonio Garretón, Radomiro Tomic, Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, etc.
The Conservative Youth, since their arrival, tried to print the Conservative Party an advanced stamp in
political, economic and social matter related to the Papal Encyclical "Quadragesimo Anno", but his ideas collided with the traditional currents (agrarian oligarchs) and with those who had evolved towards individualistic liberalism (industrial capitalists).
In 1933, thanks to an Episcopal order, the massive admission of young people, preferably from the ANEC to the Conservative Party, was encouraged, resisting said order by the group "El Surco" of Father Guillermo Viviani, who wanted the creation of another political party of the court. Christian and popular; and the “Social League” of Father Fernando Vives, which promoted social action outside the political parties.
Although this measure contributed to strengthening conservative youth, it also generated their internal division, which was finally expressed in 1935, in the creation of the "Conservative Action", a center that promoted the defense of old ideas and the "Conservative Falange ”, A current that proposed its renewal, through the following fundamental ideas:
1º Detach the spiritual religious from the active political, reaching a non-denominational Christian political party.
2º Maintain an anti-capitalist conscience.
3rd Modify the structures of democracy.
At this time, the influence on this conglomerate of the ideas of the Spanish Falange de las JONS can be located, adopting a militarized and uniformed formation adopting the aesthetics of the blue shirt, but this derived after the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, towards a public anti-Franco position.
This position was also shared by the Creole Nazism, whose leader González Von Mareés denounced the substitution in this Hispanic organization of the old ideals, by a growing shift to the right, expressing in one of his speeches: “We will not make the mistake of the Spanish Falange!
The Conservative Falange, was chaired by Bernardo Leighton, who promoted a propagandist work of the new ideas, through the development of tours throughout the country; public rallies in theaters; radio speeches; and the publication of a newspaper called "Lircay".
The public position assumed by the phalanx, many times clashed with the opinion of the party leaders and with the high ecclesiastical hierarchies. Despite this, in 1937, the Falangists obtained the inclusion of a delegate, in the elections of the new party directory, the election of some parliamentarians and the incorporation in one of the three quotas, offered by President Arturo Alessandri Palma to the conservative party, of the Falangist Bernardo Leighton, who served in the portfolio of Work.
After the seizure and incineration, in mid-1938, of number 285 of the satirical magazine "Topaze", the three conservative ministers resigned, and only the resignation of the Falangist minister Bernardo Leighton took place.
With the public support, which the Conservative Party made, of the presidential candidacy of the Alessandrista Minister Gustavo Ross Santa María, there was a new friction with the young people of the phalanx, who perceived him as “the incarnation of the insensitive oligarchy and the most representative of the economic right ”(Rafael A. Gumucio).
After rejecting the proposal of the phalanx, to present Jorge Matte Gormaz as the presidential candidate of conservatism, the expulsion of the Falangists finally took place, thus soon after: the "National Falange" Party.
That same year, once the massacre of students and workers in the Seguro Obrero occurred, the ibañista forces turned their support to the presidential candidacy of Radical Pedro Aguirre Cerda, representative of the “Popular Front”, who was elected by a narrow margin of suffrages, supported by socialists, communists,
nacists
and independent ibañistas.
Almost twenty years later, the National Falange will undergo a new transformation, giving shape in 1957 to the Christian Democratic Party.https://sites.google.com/site/notasdehistoria/lafalangenacionaldechile
https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Montalva (loads of pics and associations with Falange Nacional)