Some scholars claim that with de Cerralbo increasingly fascinated by Vázquez de Mella[REF] though also aging, tired of conflict and irresolute, the latter assumed actual command of party structures,[REF] while Carlist policy was increasingly formed by Mellismo.
With Don Jaime hardly contactable in Austria following outbreak of the Great War, the Mellistas took almost full control of the party;[REF] the Carlist Cortes campaigns of 1914, 1916 and 1918 were visibly marked by Mellista-nurtured long-term strategy.