I have just received a paper from Hans Krabbendam, `A plant of American origin, fit for Ducth soil?' American Proetstantism and the Dutch Reformed temperance effort, 1835-1935, pp.57-78 in: George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Sharing the Reformed Tradition: The Dutch-North American Exchange, 1846-1996, Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij, 1996. The paper gives a short history of the Dutch temperance movement in the course of emphasizing the Reformed Church aspects of it and the extent to which America served as an inspiration and an influence. The paper can profitably be read along with Sidsel Eriksen's paper comparing Swedish and Danish temperance. Krabbendam also tries to solve for Harry Levine the puzzle of whether the Netherlands would count as a temperance culture or not in Harry's dichotomy (Harry had presented it as a borderline case). The verdict still appears to be mixed. Relevant to the puzzle of how a country with Calvinist roots can end up with the present tolerant drug policies, Krabbendam remarks that the failure to pass "moderate restrictive legislation" on alcohol in the 1910s and 1920s "was a result of their failure to assuage the tension between private freedom and public policy". Robin