Catalan National Committee was a

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organization founded in Paris in 1918 by Daniel Domingo i Montserrat, commander of the First Regiment of Catalan Volunteers in

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. The committee aimed at giving voice to the aspirations of the Catalan people following the speech of

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in the Spanish Courts asking for independence based on the Fourteen Points of the United States President

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. The organization was greeted the observer status in the

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. On the 1918

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(Sept. 11) the committee published a trilingual (French-English-Catalan) brochures and organized various events asking for the presence of Catalonia in the

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. The committee absorbed the Catalan Nationalist League organization and sought the support of American-based Catalans such as Salvador Carbonell i Puig and Josep Abril i Llinés. In 1923, its members formed the support committee to Catalan State in Paris.

Bibliography

* David Martínez i Fiol ''The Catalan volunteers in the Great War (1914–1918)'' (in Catalan: ''Els voluntaris catalans a la Gran Guerra (1914–1918)''), Publications of the Abbey of Montserrat, 1991, p.105-112 * David Martínez and Fiol ''Daniel Domingo Montserrat, 1900–1963: entre el marxisme i el nacionalisme]'', p. 58-82 * Joan Crexell i Playà ''The origin of the independentist flag'' (in Catalan: ''L'origen de la bandera independentista''), p. 77-80, 1984, Ed. ''El Llamp''. Catalan nationalism Catalan independence movement Organizations established in 1918 {{Catalonia-stub