Fernando María Castiella
Fernando María Castiella , born with Bilbao in 1907, died with Madrid in 1976, was a Spanish diplomat , Foreign Minister between 1957 and 1969, during the dictatorship Franquiste.
It obtained a doctorate in Droit to the Université of Madrid then continued its studies with Paris, Cambridge, Geneva then the Académie of International law of $the Hague.
With the release of the Guerre of Spain it left Madrid to join the nationalist zone where it occupied a post of officer of staff until the exit of the conflict, after which it took part in the purification of the university of Madrid. During the Second world war it engaged in the División Azul. With Jose María de Areilza he wrote, in 1941, Reivindicaciones de España , exposing a project of appropriation of the French colonies in Africa to the moment when Franco then considered an entry in war at the sides of the Third Reich with the ridge of its power.
After the war, it occupied various stations of the pro-Franco government. He was ambassador of Spain to the Peru (between 1948 and 1951) and near the the Holy See (between 1951 and 1957), where he negotiated the Concordat August 27th 1953.
Free Foreign Minister the February 25th 1957 named it. At this station he undertook negotiations with the the United Kingdom on the question of Gibraltar, unfruitful, and got busy to leave pro-Franco Spain his diplomatic insulation. Quite as unfruitful were its attempts at accession of Spain to NATO like with the EEC. He however managed to do of Spain one of the members cofounders of OECD like one of the members of the the IMF.
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