until the mid-1950s carlism remained in opposition to the regime, its veiled institutional outposts barely tolerated by the administration. in 1955-1957 this strategy was replaced with cautious cooperation. prince carlos hugo joined the new platform and his public statements sounded like an offer to franco, with dynastic hopes vaguely in the background. the rapprochement produced some visible concessions on part of the regime, and green light for a few carlist periodicals was one of them. until the mid-1960s montejurra pursued a careful tactics. the monthly underlined the official auto-definition of the system as a representative and social monarchy and tried to stress the royal threads as much as possible. on the other hand, while loyal to franco the monthly preferred to avoid exaltation of caudillo, to de-emphasize falangism and to mark its distance to dictatorial features. the censorship office remained suspicious and imposed a number of restrictions, aimed at preventing dynastic propaganda. when in the mid-1960s it became clear that carlos hugo was losing the race for franco's favors to juan carlos, "montejurra" became increasingly adamant; this in turn produced problems in censorship, and the second half of the decade was marked by escalating tension. following the 1968 expulsion of carlos hugo "montejurra" became openly critical of the regime; though "cruzada" was exalted as late as 1969, tension grew into a war. turn of the decade brought constant administrative interventions and fines, which climaxed in eventual withdrawal of the license.