People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Émile Vandervelde Émile Vandervelde
Chairman of the International Socialist Bureau who led the Second International and joined Belgium’s wartime government in 1914
Political and party leadership · Belgium state institutions
1866–1938
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Camille Huysmans Camille Huysmans
Secretary of the Second International from 1905 to 1922 who kept its Bureau alive in the war and later became Belgian prime minister
Diplomacy and international organization
1871–1968
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Raoul Van Overstraeten Raoul Van Overstraeten
A royal military adviser who tested wartime warnings with caution
Military command · Belgium state institutions
1885–1977