Speech on July 8 1968 with the inauguration of the monument to the Navy and the Indian Castilla, Peña Cabarga erected by the Hon. Mr. Admiral D. Pedro Nieto Antúnez, Minister of Marine.
"Excellencies. Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen,
Everything that begins to be, everything that opens, contains in itself a clear symbol of expectation, a promising embryo contingency, an eloquent advance fruitful future realities. Where, as in this case happens, what comes further part in the spirit that animates it, that the material in the reports, when the new is more heat than it is stated that the stone cold over which hovers the structure has to see clearly before the more anxious anticipation, the most hopeful of the possibilities and realities for the spirit.
This agile and slender Santander monument that stands at the Marina de Castilla and the emigrant recalled forward to many generations of English and foreign seamen who may sail the endless waters lie down there is how real, and many respects similar vocational response to a call of the sea that is, those that serve a Marina and here are those who for various circumstances seek new lives overseas. The Castilla marine sea yesterday and today Castilla given to his profession with the illusion that gives them the deep conviction of the perennial need Castile and Spain have had to have seamen. The emigrant, ocean circustancial for vital needs, becomes convinced too, though perhaps without deliberate awareness of what the sea link, path, middle, is and will for what he identified with his sacrifice has bravely decided to be.
La Marina de Castilla, covering historical and secular in its surveillance for the sake of the whole land azimuth horizon, looked in preference to the north and west. The immigrant, forced to make the painful tug on the material has to uproot the soil, looking Likewise sea \u200b\u200banxious that tends the Septentrion and generous overseas lands that lie far to the west, to such bountiful American sod in which Castile, Aragon and Spain left the most fruitful of his centuries, the youngest of their lives and the more effective perhaps his heart and soul. Hence the symbol stone sea mountain illustrious names in their lofty pilasters facing northwest, to launch the imagination of the beholder the bright beam of light to the land which gave and Castilla whenever and wherever they are and will sons of Spain, and which projects into the sea his broken ramp in wistful desire to facilitate the departure of which start today and joyful attempt at the same time, promote the return of those with more years, without youth perhaps, but more love what they left in their day, choose to return to what will never be his .
coincidentally also happy to give birth to this monument in one of the days of the week Naval de Santander, one of these days chosen by the Navy to bring more intensity and sea best wishes to all English. There is nothing better to demonstrate and convince the realities that perpetuate genuinely eloquent symbols. These stones have always vouch for what the sea was, what the sea has to be for Castile and Spain. So I want to leave my public words on record the gratitude of the Navy to Santander and their children: the recognition of the Navy to land on the Mount and to the Highlanders who understand and love the sea. Thank you for what is already done, thank you for what you are doing, thanks, anyway, so you will have to do relentlessly.
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these stones, these suggestive forms and attractive, consecrate the great truth of the sea, that the symbolic light of this beacon illuminating the voyages of the children of Castile and Spain want to decide on hours or transatlantic lives, that names carved into them are dynamic example for young people eager seafaring adventures, that the appearance from the Northern Sea submit their projected lines against the bright blue sky peninsular remember the rider of any latitude the renewed vigorous response from Spain and the English to the call of the sea, which fortunately is booming for new long and calls us together from all corners of the compass rose, and, finally, no one thinks that today or tomorrow before this monument forget what the Navy, Santander, Castilla, Spain as a whole, their land and Men must and we will always to the sea that gives life. "
