“…In June 1937, when Franco occupied Bilbao by force of arms, he suppressed the unjust secular privilege by proclaiming the equality of all the regions of Spain vis-a-vis the Public Treasury. …”

“…The undeniable economic injury suffered by the population of Biscay as a result of the suppression of the fiscal secular privilege constituted, according to London, the spiritual and material basis of an enduring tacit resistance of the Basque people to Franco. …”