FLAG QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 218, 10 June 1926, Page 7

FLAG QUESTION

SOUTH AFRICAN CONTROVERSY CRESWELL DEFENDS HIS ATTITUDE Bi Telegraph—Press Association copyright. Cape Town, June 8. Tn a letter to the Labour Party, Colonel Creswell, leader of the partf, defends his attitude on the flag question. He declares it untrue that the Union

Jack would be hauled down as the symbol of South African nationality. South Africa should have flags for both sections of the people or neither. T h e Union Jack would recall painful memories tn the Dutch section; therefore, both sections could not stand before

it on an equal footing. “The Flag Bill,” he said, “maintains the Union Jack as the symbol of South Africa’s relations to the Empire, but establishes another flag as a symbol of South African nationality without anv reminder of past differences.” He admits that at first he thought a combination of British and Republican flags the best, but he was now convinced that they had to recognise the feelings of the other side. He concludes by denouncing the agitation as engineered by the South African Party Press and politicians.—Reuter.

DETAILS OF NATIONAL FLAG

Cape Town, June 8. In the Union House of Assembly, Dr Malan, Minister of the Interior, announced that the Governor-General had laid before His Majesty for his information the details of the National Flag design, and also the clause dealing with flving the Union Jack and the National Flag on official occasions. The Minister added that advice had been received that these matters had been duly laid before the King.—Reuter.