Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez (1890 – 1971) was a Spanish diplomat

Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

. He was born in Madrid. During the 1920s he worked in Minorities Section of the League of Nations

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 Secretariat. During the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

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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) http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/112.4/pedersen.html