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Camille Huysmans

Camille Huysmans
Non-Bolshevik socialists Belgium Belgium 1871–1968 ○ Natural causes

Secretary of the Second International from 1905 to 1922 who kept its Bureau alive in the war and later became Belgian prime minister

In 1917, the Socialist International’s Bureau, led by Huysmans, sought to mediate among socialists in the belligerent countries through a Stockholm peace conference; Allied governments’ refusal to issue passports prevented it from taking place.

A Flemish teacher and journalist, he was secretary of the International Socialist Bureau from 1905 to 1922. When war came he moved the Bureau to the neutral Netherlands, tried to bring the belligerent parties back together and prepared the Stockholm conference of 1917. Between the wars he was a Belgian deputy and education minister; in the Second World War he fled to London and again served as the International’s secretary. He was prime minister of Belgium in 1946–1947.

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  • 1905–1922Secretary of the Second International
  • 1910–1965Member of Belgium’s House of Representatives
  • 1925–1927Minister of Education
  • 1933Became mayor of Antwerp
  • 1936–1939President of Belgium’s House of Representatives
  • 1946–1947Prime Minister of Belgium
  • 1947–1949Minister of Education