 Following demise of Academia in the mid-1940s there were no official or semi-official Carlist structure in Madrid; internal political and dynastical fragmentation contributed to crisis of the movement.During that period Larramendi, influenced by Elías de Tejada and own father, tended to favor Dom Duarte and the Braganzas as most legitimate candidates to the throne, though in the early 1950s he was already converted to supporter of the Borbón-Parmas.Following a brief and moderately successful episode of launching in 1951 an own publishing house, Traditionalist-flavored Editorial Cálamo, in the early 1950s he became known in the movement as a young, vehemently anti-Francoist and dynastically loyal militant.