SOUTH AFRICAN EMBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 9

SOUTH AFRICAN EMBLEM

A CONCESSION TO DUTCH FEELING

LABOUB LEADEE DEFENDS BILL.

(United Press Association.—Copy right.) (Keutef'a Telegram.) (Heceived 9th June, noon.)

CAPETOWN, Bth June.

In a letter to the Labour Party, Col-! onel Creswell, leader of the party, defends his attitude on the flag question. He declares it untrue that the Union I 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. The Union Jack would recall painful memories in 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 any reminder of past differences." / He admits that at first he thought a combination of British and Ecpublican 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.