In this moment, Irujo promoted a Basque National Council (Consejo Nacional de Euzkadi-Euzkadi'ko Batzar Nagusia, formally established in 11 July 1940) inspired by the exile governments and committees forming among European refugees in Britain.
He became involved with Radio Euzkadi, broadcast daily in Venezuela and collaborated in the resistance magazine Gudari.
In 1922 he led a march calling for the creation of a Basque University in Gernika during which he was arrested along with the editor of Euzkadi.
Sabino Arana interpreted it as a solar symbol, supporting his theory of a Basque solar cult based on wrong etymologies, in the first number of Euzkadi.
At the request of the Republican government, the ships embarked more than 200 sailors of the auxiliary Navy from Euzkadi to replace their original crews, who had been deemed untrustworthy.
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On 31 May of the same year, the Police and the Marina de Guerra Auxiliar de Euzkadi took control of the José Luis Díez and the Císcar.
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