CURIOSITY
Try to link these pieces of information:
a) He or she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
b) He/She set up the so-called Pro-Captives Office in his/her own "house"
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Alfonso XIII of spain , he helped people find their relatives , he created The Oficina Pro-Cautivos where he recived a lot of people letters this book is inspirated in one history of one girl that is searching her brother and wrote to Alfonso
ReplyDeleteThe person that we are talking is Alfonso xiii
ReplyDeleteHe was Alfonso XIII.
ReplyDeleteHello there! This is my answer:
ReplyDelete"All the pieces of information (both pictures and sentences) have one common element: Alfonso XIII of Spain:
He was the ruler of the Spanish Throne from 1886 to 1931. He maintained Spain's neutrality on the First World War, but this didn't mean he forgot completely about it. He created the Pro-Captives Office at the Royal Palace, where lots of letters were received from the belligerent countries asking for its help to know how their injured or even prisoner soldiers were, among other favours. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917 thanks to this non-gubernamental humanitarian actions, but, finally, the International Committee of the Red Cross won the price instead".
Well, the first photo, which shows a book, refers to a book of Jorge Díaz ( Cartas a Palacio ) in which tells us the history of the creation of the pro-captives office during the war. It was helpful to find information about people who has disappeared in the fronts.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures below make reference to some of the cards that were sent to palace to know about those persons.
Was Rodrigo Saavedra y Vinent but his title was marqués de villalobar
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ReplyDeleteThis book was written by Jorge Diaz and it is set up in Spain during the WWI.
ReplyDeleteIt sells us the story of how the king Alfonso XIII founded the Pro-Captive Office ( an organisation with the objective of locating the dessapeared soldiers during the WWI).
The king Alfonso XIII was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize twice thanks to creating this assosiation.
Víctor Martínez Segovia
Alfonso XIII
ReplyDeleteIn this book(Cartas a Palacio) they talk about how the king of Spain Alfonso XIII began the Pro-Captive Office to find missing people or prisoners and try to reunite them with their families.Thanks to this humanitarian Office to help WWI victims. He was nominated to a Nobel peace prize.
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ReplyDeleteHablamos de Alfonso XIII de España, que ayudó a las personas a encontrar a sus familiares y además creó The Oficina Pro-Cautivos para recibir cartas de esos familiares. Este libro está inspirado en una historia de una niña que está buscando a su hermano y le escribió a Alfonso.
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