Pablo de Azcárate

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Azcárate and the second or maternal family name is Flórez.

Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez (1890–1971) was a Spanish diplomat. He was born in Madrid. During the 1920s he worked in Minorities Section of the League of Nations Secretariat. During the Spanish Civil War, Azcárate served as Ambassador of the Spanish Republican government to London. Following the British recognition of the Nationalist government in early 1939, he went into exile in Switzerland. From 1946 onward, he was attached to the UN. In 1948-1952 he served as secretary of the Consular Truce Commission in Jerusalem on behalf of the UN. Azcárate died in Geneva in 1971.

Pablo de Azcárate (R) of the United Nations Truce Commission, talking to Dr. Egon Riss Israel (with his back to the camera) who volunteered to join as a POW so he could continue treating the Israeli wounded POWs being taken to Jordan, Mr. Mosa el Husaini (the nephew of the Mofti Haj_Amin_al-Husseini, he was not an MD) and an Israeli nurse (Masha), in Jerusalem, 1 June 1948.

Azcárate's son, Manuel Azcárate (1916–1998), became one of the leaders of the Spanish Communist Party.

Works

• League of Nations and National Minorities: An Experiment (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C. 1945)
• Azcarate, Pablo de, Mission in Palestine, 1948-1952 (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1966)

Further reading

• Susan Pedersen, "Back to the League of Nations" The American Historical Review, Vol. 112, No. 4 (October 2007) [1]