[5] The work was aimed at "those engaged in administrative or diplomatic affairs, in legal or commercial business, and in literary or scientific research in the Ottoman Empire".
[5] His assignment to the embassy in Madrid in 1904 marked the start of a long relationship with that country which led on to his involvement with the civil war and his 1933 book "The New Spain"[6] which has been widely quoted,.
His book "New Germany" was published in 1920, in it he wrote " in January, 1919, I resigned my commission and made my way out to Berlin as correspondent for the Daily News, I had two purposes in view.
He stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate for South Bucks in the general elections of 1923 and 1924 but was unsuccessful on both occasions.
[10] By 1937 Young was living in a villa in Torremolinos[11] which at that time was close to the southern front in the Spanish Civil War.
He was a strong supporter of the Popular Front government which had been elected in 1936,[12] and early in 1937 Young was involved in establishing the "University Ambulance Unit", with the intention that it would operate on similar lines to the Friends' Ambulance Unit in which his brother Geoffrey had served during the first world war.
[13] From there the Unit could provide medical assistance and other humanitarian aid to the beleaguered citizens of Malaga and the surrounding area but the Nationalist victory in the Battle of Málaga, which led to the Málaga–Almería road massacre, meant that refugees became the focus of the Unit's work, first in Almeria and then in Murcia.