Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal

Guillermo Rafael de Blanck y García-Menocal also Willy de Blanck (born September 7, 1882 in Manhattan , † November 6, 1978 in Miami ) Cuban violinist and ambassador .

Life

Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal was the firstborn son of Pilar Martin and Hubert de Blanck, (born June 14, 1856 in Utrecht , † November 28, 1932 in Havana), who founded the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica of Havana and the Teatro Hubert de in 1885 Blanck was. One of his mother's cousins ​​was Mario García Menocal . Menocal was married several times, first in Shanghai with Mauricia Perzinsky, who gave birth to his daughter Rosario de Blanck y Perzinsky (born February 25, 1915 in Shanghai; † July 7, 2007 in Buenos Aires ). He then married Fatmeh Adrenne (* Isfahan ) on May 27, 1918 , then Adriana Inavrillice (* 1894 in Marseille ), in October 1937 Alwine AM Beelitz in Willesden Middlesex , as well as Adriana Sokon and Lloyd Dario, the owners of Palazzo Dario , theirs their daughter Patrizia De Blanck was born on November 9, 1940 in Rome.

Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal studied law and practiced the profession of lawyer . In 1906 he entered the foreign service and became an attaché in Paris . In 1911 he founded a conservative newspaper and in 1913 became editor-in-chief of the weekly Gráfico , in which caricatures by Conrado Walter Massaguer appeared. When Mario García Menocal became president in 1913, Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal acted as his secretary until 1913 when he sent him to the British concession in Shanghai as consul general . A year later, Menocal became the first Cuban resident minister and head of the trade mission in Beijing . On November 11, 1918, he was appointed Secretary General of the Cuban delegation to the Treaty of Versailles , led by Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén .

In 1921 Menocal moved up as a representative of the Cuban government at the League of Nations and at the ILO and on December 12, 1921, received his letter of accreditation from Wilhelmina of the Netherlands as envoy extraordinary and ministerial plénipotentiaire . Partly at the same time, from 1922 to 1931 he worked in the same function in Switzerland and resided in Geneva . From 1931 to the end of February 1935 he was then appointed Deputy Foreign Minister.

Menocal was then employed as Ambassador to the Court of St James’s in London from 1935 to 1948 . During this time he was accredited as Ministre plénipotentiaire with the local governments in exile in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Luxembourg, Greece, the Netherlands and, from 1943, with the French Committee for National Liberation . In addition, he represented Cuba as protecting power for Mexico , which for several months had earlier set off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, supplying Winston Churchill 2500 Corona Shaped - cigars . In December 1941, the Cuban government declared war on the governments of Japan, the German Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

After the Second World War , Menocal was employed as Ministre plénipotentiaire from 1948 to 1955 and then as ambassador to Rome . then he was a special advisor to UNESCO in Paris until 1958 .

Publications

• Gotas de sangre: novela de la guerra, 1921
• Del tabaco cubano, en general, y en el Reino Unido en especial. En "Revista Tabaco", núm. 15 5-156. La Habana, abril-mayo, 1946.
• Reportage (Scherzo), poetry that received an excellent review in ABC (Spain) on October 6, 1955 .
• Carta a Castro, 82 p. 1961

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Members of cuban cabinet resign as srif increase (PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Willy de Blanck ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hubert de Blanck's eldest son  
3. ↑ diplomaat ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , born September 7, 1882 in Manhattan  

predecessor	Office	successor
Benjamin Giberga y Galí	Cuban envoy in Beijing 1914 to November 11, 1918	José Agripino Barnet y Vinageras
	Cuban envoy to The Hague December 12, 1921 to 1926	Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina
	Cuban envoy in Geneva from 1922 to 1931	Santiago Verdeja y Sardiña
Gustavo Sotolongo y Saínz de Aja	Cuban envoy to London 1935-1946	Roberto Gonzalez Mendoza y de la Torre
Miguel A. Espinosa y Bravo	Cuban envoy to Rome from 1948 to 1954	Leonardo Fernández Sánchez