BROQUEVILLE, CHARLES, COMTE DE

born Dec. 4, 1860, Postel, near Mol, Belg. died Sept. 5, 1940, Brussels statesman who headed the Belgian government-in-exile during World War I. Broqueville was prime minister in 1911 and again in 1912. Minister of war also from 1912 to August 1917, he was responsible for the Belgian mobilization on the eve of war in 1914. He resigned the premiership in December 1917 when it became known that, without informing his cabinet, he had taken part in a negotiation for a separate peace with Austria-Hungary. He subsequently held various ministerial appointments and finally was again prime minister from October 1932 until November 1934, at the head of a Catholic-Liberal coalition.