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The final years of the 1950s met in Catalonia and in the Basque Country a new impulse to their respective national movements. The Secretary General of the Movement organized in 1961 a series of written debates on the question. The paper «Cultural and political action to overcome divisive nationalist concepts» studied the Basque question, but its findings were never published. The debate was repeated in very similar terms in 1971 and 1973. The attempts of the speakers for a new regionalism to oppose what they considered separatism, foundered on the Basque society demands and the Franco's authorities refusal to reform the Spanish state centralist model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]