 Aurelio Ribalta, a Galician writer living in Madrid, called for the protection of the Galician language in 1915.On January 5, 1916, Antón Vilar Ponte started a campaign for the establishment of a League of Friends of the Galician Language in the newspaper "La Voz de Galicia" and in March 1916 he published "Galician Nationalism (Notes for a Book)