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Article: Honi Soif... (repeal of the Vandervelde Act in Belgium)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 23, 1984
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Honi Soif . . .
Belgium is not a country often thought of in connection with experiments in temperance, nor are its hearty inhabitants especially known for their abstemiousness. Nevertheless, the Belgian parliament has done a strange thing: It has abolished a law, which no one knew existed, prohibiting the sale of alcohol to any and all citizens. Known as the Vandervelde Act, the law was passed in 1919 ostensibly to prevent the working class from ...