At the professional level, he was the co-founder of the Société Belge de Gastro-entérologie in 1928.
After World War II he joined the Communist Party of Belgium.
In February 1946 he led the list of the party and was elected communist senator for the Arrondissement of Brussels.
He was also at that time President of the Belgian Red Cross and ensured Belgium considered the positions of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, the only Western country to do so in the ICRC.
[3] In 1950 he was the head of a United Nations mission in Syria, on behalf of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), which was engaged in providing assistance and employment for Palestinian refugees.