Pablo de Azcárate

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

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 Franco 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.

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) [1]