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Show rOWQUES CLASH IH BELGIUM rlemlth-8paklno Bltmenta Win Point Against Their Countrymen Whoia Language Is French. National divisions aro growing mora icute ln Belgium, says a writer ln the Jvlng Age. The Flemish-speaking irovlnccs, already Insurgent against ho French-speaking Brussels govern oent beforo tho war, and encouraged n this attitude during the German oc-upatlon, oc-upatlon, aro more Insistent upon their Igbts than ever. Parliament recently refused to erect i Flemish university at Antwerp. But ho minister of education, apparently elthout tho endorsement of all his col-oagucs, col-oagucs, submitted a bill to parliament irovldlng that "at tho University of 3bent instruction shall bo given In flemish j It shall bo given ln French ind Flemish ln tho schools of civil on-lneoring, on-lneoring, arts and manufactures." This bill was adopted by n vote of 10 against 83, with soven nbstcntlons lgures suggesting tho equal division f sentiment over a question that, If vo nro to credit nowspaper headlines, ias aroused passions that havo jrought tho peoplo to the vergo of violence. Tho neutral and Protestant Journal lo Qcnevo regards tho action of tho Belgian parliament as a "regrettable ictback to Latin culture," likely to iccentuato "discords of race, language, ind oven of religion" ln that country. |