Calle Alberto Martín Artajo
Alberto Martín-Artajo y Álvarez (Madrid, 1905–1979), a state attorney and minister of foreign affairs between 1945 and 1957, managed Spain’s return to international bodies during Franco’s isolation. Madrid’s city council named the street on 28 January 1959.
A street dedicated to Alberto Martín-Artajo y Álvarez, a jurist who in July 1945 was named minister of foreign affairs by Franco, a post he held for almost twelve years. In that time he signed three agreements that pulled Spain out of its isolation: the Concordat with the Holy See and the Pact of Madrid with the United States, both in 1953, and the country’s admission to the UN in December 1955.
For that diplomatic work, historians dubbed him “the Chancellor of the Resistance.” Before politics he had worked alongside Ángel Herrera Oria at the Catholic daily El Debate and been active in the National Catholic Association of Propagandists.
The calle de Alberto Martín Artajo lies in the Guindalera neighborhood, within the Salamanca district, and was named on 28 January 1959.
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