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    I don't quite understand the reason for this.  Can you explain?

The reason is so that C-M-x on a defvar will reinitialize the
variable.  But it doesn't really matter--the point is that we want
to generate a defvar.

								     And
    what is the important part -- that (defkeymap ...) expand into (progn
    (defvar ...) (custom-declare-keymap ...))?

Yes, exactly.