Adrián C. Escobar

Adrián César Escobar (born August 26, 1883 in Buenos Aires , † February 15, 1954 there ) was an Argentine diplomat and politician .

Life

Adrián César Escobar was the son of Maria Aqevedo Ramos de Escobar and Miguel Escobar. He studied law . In 1913, Adrian César Escobar was a member of the Argentine National Congress and rejected an application to nationalize the Argentine oil industry.

From 1920 to 1924 he sat for the Partido Conservador over the electoral district of Buenos Aires in parliament . He was involved in a legislative initiative to restrict the Argentine migration regime. From 1939 to 1940 he was the president of the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino . During his tenure, the annual Copa Adrián C. Escobar football tournament, held from 1939 to 1949, was started, for which he donated the trophy .

Adrian C. Escobar was the Argentine ambassador in Madrid from December 1940 to November 1942. From August to October 1941, on behalf of the Comisión de Adquisiciones Argentinas en el Extranjero, an agency of the Argentine army, he organized the transport of rare earths from the territory of the German Empire and Switzerland to Spanish ports. He commissioned under the direction of Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú the Schenker AG with the transport of Portbou . Francisco Franco's regime ensured rail transport from Portbou to Irun and sea transport to Buenos Aires .

In March 1942 Adrian C. Escobar applied to the German occupation authorities for a permanent visa for Héctor Cáceres, the technician of the Comisión de Adquisiciones Argentinas en el Extranjero for France. He picked up material in Irun and accompanied the transport to Lisbon. In June 1942 Escobar applied for a visa for Mayor Juan L. Bertuch, the chairman of the Comisión de Adquisiciones Argentinas en el Extranjero, to buy artillery from Schneider AG in Le Creusot . In December Adrian C. Escobar announced to Juan L. Bertuch in Lisbon that the Franco regime had approved the transit of nine boxes of used weapons. In May 1943, four large boxes were transported via Irun and Bilbao to the Fábrica Militar de Pólvoras y Explosivos del Ejército . The military attaché at the German embassy in Buenos Aires ordered a few planes and tanks in mid-1942. The successor to the office of the Argentine ambassador in Madrid, Alberto Palacios Costa, also appointed Reinhard Spitzy at the end of 1943 . In the aftermath of this transfer, the Reich Security Main Office established that Walter Kutschmann , who secured the transfer in Hendaye, had embezzled customs duties, at least this allegation was mentioned in an extradition application to the Franco regime.

At the end of June 1942, Escobar was allowed to go to France from Buenos Aires. On August 12, 1942, he and Juan Carlos Goyeneche became Pius XII. flown. Goyeneche received an audience on October 10, 1942. One of Adrian C. Escobar's representative tasks in Europe was to accompany Aquilino López, the Agregado Cultural , Juan Carlos Goyeneche, on his peace mission to Philippe Pétain , Benito Mussolini , António de Oliveira Salazar and Joachim von Ribbentrop on November 30, 1942 .

In mid-January 1944, the government of Pedro Pablo Ramírez broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis powers and Adrian C. Escobar was sent to Washington as ambassador.

On February 23, 1944 Adrian C. Escobar was visiting Eleanor Roosevelt . On June 22, 1944, the Roosevelt government recalled Ambassador Norman Armor from Buenos Aires to Washington. After the administration of Edelmiro Julián Farrell dismissed Ambassador Adrian C. Escobar, the US administration under Roosevelt declared on July 26, 1944 that it would not recognize the administration of Edelmiro Farrel until fundamental changes in its policy towards the United Nations were made would be demonstrated.

Adrián Escobar was imprisoned in 1951 by the Juan Perón government in the Penitenciaría Nacional .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World biography , Volume 1, New York, NY, 1948, p. 1688.
2. ↑ Alberto Ciria, Parties and power in modern Argentina (1930-1946) , 1974, 357 pages.
3. ↑ Las relaciones entre la Argentina y España, Las relaciones durante los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
4. ^ Glen Yeadon, John Hawkins, The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century, p. 387
5. ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Jan 28, 1944, Argentina Gives Warning To Nazis, Japs - He did not say whether measures were being studied concerning Axis property in Argentina. Adrian C. Escobar, new ambassador to the United States
6. ↑ Time , Oct. 18, 1943, US At War: Senor & Senora
7. ↑ Time , Feb. 14, 1944, His reception was the coldest the US has given any high Latin American diplomat
8. ^ Eleanor Roosevelt, MY DAY February 23, 1944
9. ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Jul 26, 1944, Policy Toward United Nations

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel García-Mansilla	Ambassador of Argentina in Madrid December 1940 - November 1942	Alberto Palacios Costa
Felipe Alberto de Espi	Ambassador of Argentina to Washington February 3, 1944 - February 25, 1944	diplomatic relations suspended