 Having returned to the capital he indeed engaged in local AET organization and emerged as one of its most active leaders.Together with a group of similarly-minded peers, best known of them Rafael Gambra and Francisco Elías de Tejada, he staged minor and semi-private anti-Francoist demonstrations, at one point in 1942 having been detained and placed under security supervision.Their most notable activity was Academia Vázquez de Mella, a Carlist-flavored private educational initiative of Maximo Palomar; the experience formatted Larramendi reinforcing his penchant for social issues and for cultural rather than political dimension of Traditionalism.