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...The next day, late for a meeting and with no taxi in sight, on again I hopped, like John Wayne late for a shootout....
...Party leader Bart De Wever won in Antwerp, a Socialist stronghold since the 1930s. Yet Mr De Wever is not demanding independence right away....
...As late as last year Bart de Wever, leader of the main Flemish separatist party, took a jab at Hergé’s war, citing it as an example of francophone Belgium’s failure to examine its own collaboration....
...john.lloyd@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/lloyd...
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