José Félix de Lequerica y Erquiza [SEP] place of birth
José Félix de Lequerica y Erquiza
José Félix de Lequerica y Erquiza (30 January 1891 in Bilbao, Spain – 9 June 1963) was a Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1944 and 1945.
He had previously served as mayor of Bilbao between 1938 and 1939, and ambassador to France between 1939 and 1944. He went on to serve as ambassador to the United States between 1951 and 1954, and as Spain's permanent representative to the United Nations between 1956 and 1963.
. Baudouin met his plane and immediately spoke to him of the hopelessness of the French army's resistance.
Armistice.
Baudouin was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on 16 June 1940 in Pétain's new Cabinet, and the following day he requested the Spanish Ambassador "to transmit to Germany with all speed the request to cease hostilities at once and at the same time to make known the peace terms proposed by them". On the morning of 19 June José Félix de Lequerica y Erquiza, the Spanish Foreign Minister, reported