Pablo de Azcárate

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

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 Nationalist government in early 1939, he went into exile in Switzerland.

In 1948-1952 he served as secretary of the Consular Truce Commission in Jerusalem on behalf of the UN.

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