Iturmendi's position versus Carlism remained ambiguous. On the one hand, as high official of the Interior he monitored the intransigent party activists and denounced some as "aliadofilos".Miralles Climent 2018, p. 162, Manuel Martorell Pérez, Antonio Arrue, Euskaltzaindiaren suspertzean lagundu zuen karlista, [in:] Euskera 56 (2011), p. 856 On the other, in late 1941 he visited the Falangist secretario general and demanded that Traditionalists are no longer isolated and marginalized.Mercedes Peñalba Sotorrío, Entre la boina roja y la camisa azul, Estella 2013, , p. 88. Another author claims that Iturmendi made the same representation already in 1940, denouncing “agravios inferidos a los tradicionalistas”, Miralles Climent 2018, p. 148. However, the author claims this representation was made to Arrese, who at the time was not the FET secretary general He maintained relations with collaborative Carlists; in August 1942 he was present during a sermon to honor the Carlist dead, which later became known as the Begoña incident.Rodón Guinjoan 2015, p. 90 Iturmendi emerged unhurtAurora Villanueva Martínez, Organizacion, actividad y bases del carlismo navarro durante el primer franquismo, [in:] Geronimo de Uztariz 19 (2003), p. 115, Miralles Climent 2018, p. 217 yet he was furious about the hardline Falangism. In protest he resigned his seat in Consejo Nacional;Martorell Pérez 2008, p. 188 shortly afterwards he ceased as sub-secretary in the Interior.Marín i Cobrera 2001, p. 392 It is not clear whether the dismissal was related to his resignation; some scholars claim that on the contrary, he was fired as part of the anti-Serranista purges in the ministry.Marin Cobrera 2013, p. 276
