Joseph Martray

Joseph Martray , born in 1914 with Lamballe, journalist, militant Breton, federalistic and European, resistant, holder of the Legion of honor.

Writer of prefecture, it appears at the end of the Thirties by his militancy for the cultural and political revival of Brittany. He is moderate member of the Breton national Parti.

Second world war

He takes share with the Advisory committee of Brittany in 1942 - 1943. He becomes member starting from 1942, under regional delegate associated with Youth and president of the folk Union of Brittany, of the Advisory counsel of Brittany (CCB) for the cultural questions created by the Vichyist regional prefect, Jean Quenette.

Journalist during the war, it publishes articles under the pseudonym of Mauguet-Martin. He is named editor association of the Dépêche of Brest of December 1943 at June 1944, and of Brittany , two newspapers collaborationnists directed by the militant Breton separatist Yann Fouéré, general secretary of the Advisory committee of Brittany near the regional prefect.

This last writing in " The prohibited fatherland " that he entrusted to him the drafting as a chief of these two newspapers because he militated for regional autonomy in.liaison.with him:

Following the allied unloading the reception of information, the organization of the distribution, had become impossible. (...) Martray had thus benefitted from it to disappear, him too. I was not astonished any in addition to measurement: I was persuaded that it tried to put in action the plan that it had exposed me and to which I had agreed. It was necessary for us to try to save something in order not to leave the disarmed Breton movement, deprived of any platform and any means of being expressed. It had thus been agreed that at the proper time, it would join a clandestine group laic teachers affiliated with Resistance (...).

With the Release, Martray is stopped because of its Breton nationalism when it leaves the maquis of Lamballe. It is however slackened because of its " states of résistance".

Journalist

After the Release, it continues its journalistic career in Paris by animating a daily newspaper for the Bretons of Paris, Vent of west , then a quarterly review starting from the Breton People, which is presented in the form of a body of the ` Breton movement entire ' and develops topics like modernization, industrialization, the construction of Europe.

Breton federalist

It is by the federalistic movement which is diffused in France around the review the Federation (of which he is member of the management committee) that he will initiate a new vision of the Breton development. He is editor association of the federalistic Bulletin , which creates under the aegis of this movement the U.F.C.E. (Federalistic Union of the European Communities), association being given for goal to promote the ethnic minorities around the idea of a European federalism. (he is the first secretary)

Breton interests

Federalistic militant and European, it will tie contacts with the Breton elected officials during the year 1949. Its ambition is to give again a new virginity with regionalism in Brittany. He is the founder of CELIB the July 22nd 1950 (Study committee and of connections of the Breton interests) as well as MNDR (Movement National for decentralization and the regional reform). The political leadership of Rene Pleven gives a decisive impulse to the consolidation of the CELIB by rejoining with the regional cause the whole of the members of Parliament MRP, political training dominant in Brittany at that time. It launches in 1950 a monthly magazine, the Breton Life, which is at the beginning only one supplement of the federalistic Bulletin but which becomes the body of the CELIB. Later, it will make to gift of the title of its review the Breton People with the Breton democratic Union.

With the beginning of the year 1960, the priority was on opening-up, condition of the economic blooming of the agricultural productions especially of the Brittany. As of 1961 in front of the agitation of the producers léonards (taken sub-prefecture of Morlaix), Alexis Gourvennec and Joseph Martray had obtained Debré government a bearing set of measures on the electrification of the railway lines and the improvement of the road axes. There lend in 1963 the oath of Hennebont engaging the workmen blacksmiths and the inhabitants fighting against the closing programmed of the forging mills to swear to remain plain to save the forging mills. He writes in the review Al Liamm and is president of prospective Brittany. He belongs to the drafting of Armor magazine.

He was president of the association of study of the problems of the sea to the Economic and Social Council, and for this reason member of the French Delegation in IIIe Conférence of the the United Nations on the Right of the sea, which ended in the convention of Montego Bay.

He was in charge of teaching of Maritime law to the Université of Nantes.

Vice-president of the Economic and Social Committee of Brittany of 1974 with 1981, he is also vice-president of the French Institut of the Sea since 1980.

In 1990, it is decorated with the Ordre of Hermine. He is the author of many articles and works in connection with Brittany, of which several, recent, written in common with Jean Ollivro

Quotations

• “ the noisy demonstrations of separatisms could not make illusion on its true force, it was the doctrines of a minority and its chance rested only on the support from abroad. If the Breton ones, in their majority pole condemn today the extremism of the heirs to Breiz Atao, they do not give up of this fact all claims ”

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