Claim: Luis Araquistáin, founder of the journals España, Claridad and Leviatán, was named ambassador to Germany in 1932.
Evidence: He founded the journals España, Claridad and Leviatán. In 1932 he was named ambassador to Germany and in September 1936 ambassador to France, where until May 1937 he took charge of buying arms for the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War.