Behind The Scenes Of Unionism: There is a tradition in Belgian historiography to consider the end of the Union between catholics and liberals a consequence of the ratification of the 24-Article Treaty by the Belgian Parliament in 1839. According to this vision, the Dutch king William thus caesed to be a common foreign enemy, both for the catholics and liberals. There are, however, several reasons for looking upon the break of Unionism in 1839 as a consequence of the changed relative power between liberals and catholics, rather than as a result of this ratification.

Political Activities At Liege Under The German Occupation (1914-18): It was a fairly generally held view that under the German occupation, there was no important political activity. Actually it is just not true that the war was merely a political parenthesis in the occupied country. At Liège, the political organisations - in collaboration with the National Committee for Food and Help - were in charge of the feeding of the population and, for that very reason, survived.

Electioneering Before The Time Of Political Parties: After Belgium became independent in 1830, it lasted nearly twenty years before there came actual party organisation. How did one get oneself elected in that period ? One has to consider two quite different possibilities, depending on the candidate's view : did he, generally speaking, subscribe to the ideas of the "catholics" or to those of the "liberals" ?