The journalist Agustí Calvet, Gaziel, became the principal source of intellectual orientation of the Catalan bourgeoisie in the 1930s. In the light of the role of this elite group during the Spanish Civil War, one could suggest that the renowned director of La Vanguardia newspaper, instead of reflecting the attitudes of the ruling class, preferred to present that elite as being more open and responsible than it was in reality, with the objective of conducting it towards its reformist postulates. A commitment which was not understood by anyone at the time of the tragedy which followed.