Committee Pro Catalonia (''Comitè Pro Catalunya'' in

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) was a

political committee founded on July 8, 1918, to support the actions of the Catalan National Committee in Paris to achieve an official Catalan representation in the

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. It was chaired by

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and Pere Oliver i Domenge with

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(who would become 122nd president of Catalonia, 14 years later), Manuel Folguera i Duran, J. Grant i Sala as leading participants. It counted with the support of Unió Catalanista party, and maintained contacts with members of the Lliga Regionalista. Most of its members integrated into the Federació Democràtica Nacionalista, and later on into the

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(''Catalan State'') party.

Bibliography

* 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''.

References

{{Reflist Catalan nationalist parties Catalan independence movement 1918 establishments in Spain Organizations established in 1918