 This is not the road to socialism or communism but to desperate anarchism without even the advantage of liberty".The disenchantment with Azaña's rulling was also voiced by Miguel de Unamuno, a republican and one of Spain's most respected intellectuals, who in June 1936 told a reporter who published his statement in El Adelanto that President Manuel Azaña should commit suicide as a patriotic act”.According to Stanley Payne, by July 1936 the situation in Spain had deteriorated massively.