 Wartime ex-combatants were approaching or in their 40s, consumed by daily routine and cultivating their Carlism as chats about wartime deeds over a glass of wine.Among young militants the centre of gravity shifted from rural or small-town ambience to large cities, and these activists tended rather towards the party academic organisation .To them, Requeté was more of a glorious remnant of the past, tailored to wartime needs and unsuitable as vehicle of political militancy.