Front Movement:
in the Belgian army, dug in at the Front along the River Yser, there emerged an underground pro-Flemish movement which denounced the linguistic abuses at the Front. The so-called Front Movement (in Dutch: Frontbeweging) was an underground organization because defending linguistic rights in the army was construed as a breach of army discipline. At the end of the war its leaders founded a Flemish-nationalist party, the Front Party, to fight for an independent Flemish state.

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