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Pablo de Azcárate

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Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez (b. Madrid 1890-d. Geneva 1971) was a Spanish diplomat. During the 1920s worked in Minorities Section of the League of Nations Secretariat. During the Spanish Civil War, served as Ambassador of the Spanish Republican government to London. Following the British recognition of the Franco government in early 1939, went into exile in Switzerland.[1] From 1946 onward, was attached to the UN. In 1948-1952 served as secretary of the Consular Truce Commission in Jerusalem on behalf of the UN.


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)


For further reading

  • Susan Pedersen, "Back to the League of Nations" The American Historical Review, Vol. 112, No. 4 (October 2007) [2]


Notes

  1. ^ Time Magazine, March 6, 1939 [1]