Pablo de Azcárate

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Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez (born July 30, 1890 in Madrid , † December 13, 1971 in Geneva ) was a Spanish diplomat and in 1936 Ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic in the United Kingdom .

Pablo de Azcárate, 1925

Life

His brother was Justino de Azcárate (1903-1989). His son was Manuel Azcárate . He attended the Institución Libre de Enseñanza . Pablo de Azcárate was University Professor of Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Granada . In the 1920s he worked for the League of Nations. In 1918 he was a member of the Partido Reformista at the Cortes Generales .

From 1922 he was a member of the administration of the League of Nations . From 1929 to 1933 he worked in the Department for Minorities in the General Secretariat of the League of Nations. From 1933 to 1936 he headed the department for minorities in the General Secretariat of the League of Nations. At the end of 1932 he visited Romania and had a meeting with representatives from Székely. After its report was recorded, the council decided in 1932 to return part of the land and property of the Székely.

In September 1936 he was appointed ambassador to London by the Republican government of Spain. From September 13th to October 6th, 1937, he was with Juan Negrín in Geneva at the 18th ordinary session of the League of Nations. He was in exile in London.

From 1936 to 1939 he ran a law firm in London. One of his clients was Juan Negrín. One of his employees researched him on behalf of the 17th Count of Alba and stole him.

As ambassador, he unsuccessfully sought help from the British government for the legitimate government of Spain. When the fascists in Spain had triumphed, also with the support of MI6 , he left Great Britain and went to Geneva. He was in correspondence with Basil Liddell Hart .

With the conference of San Francisco in 1945 the plans for the establishment of the United Nations became concrete and Azcárate acted as an adviser. At the end of 1947 Azcárate was proposed by the General Secretariat of the UN to mediate together with Ralph Bunche in the conflict over Palestine . In March 1948, Azcárate headed a commission in Jerusalem. Members of the commission were a Norwegian colonel, an Indian economist and a Greek lawyer. On May 14, 1945 the mandate still given by the League of Nations expired after 25 years for the British troops.

A special session was held at the United Nations and Azcárate was called to New York. The Palestine Commission was dissolved. Pablo de Azcárate became secretary of an armistice commission made up of the Jerusalem consuls of France, Belgium and the USA. Philadelphia Quaker Attorney Harold Evans has been appointed Jerusalem City Commissioner. When Pablo de Azcárate came to Jerusalem on May 11, 1948, he appointed himself interim city commissioner. The State of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv and the Arabs were expelled from large parts of the territory through military operations.

Azcárate tried to maintain his Arab and Jewish contacts. Walking through Jerusalem was fatally dangerous - fronts had to be overcome and long marches were necessary. The United Nations representatives tried to end the hostile acts. The consuls commission proved to be unsuitable for this purpose. They met at the French consulate in Jerusalem. On May 27, 1948, the US consul Thomas C. Wasson was murdered. His task was taken over by Folke Bernadotte , who managed to negotiate a ceasefire, compliance with which was monitored by international observers.

From June until the murder of Folke Bernadotte on September 17, 1948, Pablo de Azcárate was his representative as mediator of the United Nations. He negotiated with Nasser and the Arab League. In Jerusalem he maintained close ties with the heads of the Jewish Agency. During his stays in Cairo, he tried to persuade the Arab heads of government to participate in the United Nations peace initiative. In early 1949, the armistice was sealed in four treaties, first between Israel and Egypt and later with the governments of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

Fonts

  • Mission to Palestine, 1948–1952, Washington, DC, 1966
  • La liga de las naciones y las minorías nacionales, 1944
  • La intervención nazi? Fascista en la guerra de España, 1957
  • Wellington y España, 1960
  • La guerra del 98, 1968
  • Sanz del Río (1814–1869) Editorial Tecnos, 1969
  • Mi embajada en Londres durante la guerra civil española, 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.errioxa.com/3_personajes/4_2_riojanos_ilustres/azcarate_gomez.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.epa.oszk.hu/01400/01462/00015/pdf/173-180.pdf p. 177
  3. ^ "Eighteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly. Geneva, September 13 - October 6, 1937, “ League of Nations
  4. ↑ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/liddell/li1503j.htm
  5. ↑ Manuel Azcarate: "Pablo de Azcarate y el nacimiento de un Estado." In: El País , January 30, 1986.
predecessor Office successor
Ramón Pérez de Ayala Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1936–1940 		Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó
personal data
SURNAME Azcárate, Pablo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Azcárate y Flórez, Pablo de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish diplomat and international lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1971
Place of death Geneva