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.

[2] He favored Nazi Germany during the Second World War, and wrote anti-Semitic reports about Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and his successor Paul Reynaud.

[3] Philippe Petain later used de Lequerica as an intermediary to request an armistice from the Wehrmacht.

[4] During the last year of the war he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and severed diplomatic relations with Imperial Japan in retaliation for the Manila massacre.

[5] He went on to serve as ambassador to the United States between 1951 and 1954, and was influential in the drafting of the Pact of Madrid.