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Pablo de Azcarate Snyder

Pablo Azcarate in the middle, as though two takes the fight to end that separates or as being in the wrong place at the right time. Azcarate is a quite obscured by the ostracism that the official history book who does not offer an easy to tell his story and yet was given the more complex, and so far unresolved, a battle that has addressed the international diplomacy.

MP for the Reform Party since 1918, political change diplomacy to join the technical cadre of the League of Nations (forerunner of the current UN) four years later. In the decade of the thirties happen responsibilities draft (1931 Director for the Protection of Ethnic Minorities) to be appointed from 1933 to 1936 Secretary General of the League of Nations greater international responsibility occupied so far by a English.

During the English Civil War has supported since its embassy in London by the Government of the Second Republic, tempering the initial sympathy that many sectors of British society felt at first by the military rebels. In the period of the conflict in London were two English embassies faces: the Republican-Azcarate and national representation in the person of James Fitz-James Stuart and Falco Duke of Alba, who after Franco's victory replace Paul as one oficila ambassador in London. Azcarate, tried unsuccessfully to mediate a ceasefire postrimero suggested by Chamberlain to seeing Spain and the defeat of the Popular Front as inevitable. And after the war took a decisive for the removal and exile of the English fled to Latin America as President of the Service Evacuation English Refugees.

In 1946 with World War II has been completed, and a large number of former members of the League of Nations, going to join the newly created United Nations Organization . there in 1948, the year in which the partition vote favorably Palestine into 2 states one Hebrew and one Arab, Pablo de Azcarate is appointed Deputy Special Commissioner Municipal committee to mediate peace in Palestine. Two allies in the UN, unexpected and would not be repeated and never the U.S. and the USSR, ended with their votes to the British Mandate remained for 30 years in the area and gave the green light to the State of Israel.

The original plan of 1948 included an international status for the city of Jerusalem to be under UN trusteeship. The plan was denied by every Arab in the area, both inside and outside Palestine. Seen as a betrayal by Muslims on the promise of pan-Arabism made by the British since Lawrence of Arabia was opposed to anger and anger to any partition that houses a Jewish State in the area. The slogan was "The into the sea." Confident in their numerical superiority and demanded that the Jihad aid to Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon refused to negotiate anything. Jews for their part, seeing that at least in the early stages of this deadly game of political chess Holy Land were not flattering, very willingly accepted the internationalization of its eternal capital Yerushalayim. Yes, the Zionists demanded a force international military who stood as peacekeepers and police to protect the 100,000 Jewish residents of the city. Instead of those UN soldiers sent on 2 March and 5 Pablo de Azcarate more administrative members to the disappointment of the Jews. Are little more than two months until 15 May (the beginning of the 1st Arab-Israeli War) and the United Nations with his apathy and lack of courage to make it clear that Jerusalem is for those who earn it by arms.

represent our fellow bravely in a war-torn city to arbitrators appointed by the UN and give the face by civilians and refugees from both sides. First in charge of Count Bernadotte was assassinated until September by a Jewish terrorist group Lehi, the continuation of Stern commands that threatened the British Mandate Palestine in its previous. And after Ralph Bunche, who would lead the final armistice between Arabs and Jews. Azcarate also organizes conferences in Lausanne (1949) and Paris (1951) with the issue of refugees in the background and hope to build consensus between the two irreconcilable communities that never came despite his efforts.

In short a lifetime devoted to diplomacy in the broadest sense and peace in the purest sense. A fascinating character whose life, generosity of vision and efforts by the weak, the refuge of all signs, it is worth knowing.