Isabelle Blume
Isabelle Blume ( born Isabelle Grégoire Rachel ); ( May 22nd, 1892 in Baudour / Borinage; † 12 March 1975) was a Belgian socialist politician, resistance fighter and President of the World Peace Council.
Life
Isabelle Grégoire was the daughter of a progressive Protestant pastor. After attending elementary school she attended a teacher training college, which she left in 1911 with obtaining their diploma. After she graduated from a theological education in Geneva. In 1913 she married the Protestant pastor David flowers. They went to Brussels, where she attended a high school worker who opened the doors to participate in the socialist movement. They became the feminist and anti-fascist and joined in 1928, the Belgian Labour Party. At the same time she was secretary of the Socialist women's movement. It was involved in women's suffrage. In 1936 she was elected as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. From 1936 to 1954 flower was MP for the BWP in Brussel -Halle- Vilvoorde.
In contradiction to the official policy of neutrality of Belgium, she joined for the creation of a Popular Front, which was the republican Spain come to the rescue. At the entry of the German Wehrmacht in 1940, she fled to London. During the war she was under the direction of Camille Huysmans as a secretary in the Royal Navy. After the defeat of Hitler's Germany, it pushed against a division of the world into two hostile blocks States.
After its entry into the World Peace Council, which was under Soviet influence and stood at the head of Communist intellectuals, it was excluded in 1951 from the Belgian Socialist Party. Since then she has held a non-party deputies her seat. 1953, she was awarded by the government of the USSR of the Stalin Peace Prize. After the PSB refused to take them back to the party, let them stand as a candidate on the lists of the Communist Party and joined her.
In 1965, she joined the World Peace Council and was from 1965 to 1966 one of its co-chairmen. From 1966 to 1969 she was elected president. In this role, she got the opportunity to meet with prominent politicians and personalities of the 20th century, including with Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Ho Chi Minh and Salvador Allende Goossens.
From 1965 to 1970, she sat for the Kummunisten in their city council Hornu.
As in 1968 arguing for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia intervention, they withdrew from the presidential office back at the WFR. Initially there was no successor. One of the more incumbent Co-Presidents, Romesh Chandra, was only in 1977 her successor.
Isabelle Blume was the mother of John Flower. Her other children were Edith and Alain Goldschlager flower, a colonel in the Belgian Air Force. She is also the grandmother of Alain Goldschlager.
Publications
- Active coexistence. No. 7th Vietnam in focus of world public opinion by Isabelle Flower, Cecily Gründorfer and Hedwig Sandmann of the International Institute for Peace, 1966
- Why I am a member of the World Council of Peace. Edited: Isabelle Flower, World Peace Council Helsinki 1952
- De la frontière du Laos à la rivière Ben Hai, South East Asian Literature, 1960
- For Germany question Dusseldorf: Westdt. Peace Committee, 1951
- To Germany Question, Berlin: German Peace Committee, ()
- Contribution to the problems of relaxation and security in Europe, World Peace Council 1966
- Black book about the war crimes of the U [ nited ] S [ tates of] A [ merica ] in South Vietnam, Vienna: Gazzetta magazines Ges, 1966