NO OFFICIAL ANTHEM
SOUTH AFRICAN DEBATE
(Received August 26, 10.45 a.m.).
CAPE TOWN, August 25.
After an all-night sitting of the House of Assembly on the resumption of the debate .on the motion by the Leader of the Opposition, ,Mr. F. S. Malan, demanding, a single purely South African and officially-recognised anthem, the House endorsed a declaration by the Premier, General Hertzog, that the Union will not possess an olflcial anthem until the English and Afrikaans communities have agreed to an appropriate one. Meanwhile "God Save the King" and "Die Stem" will be played on all occasions held under Government auspices.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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101NO OFFICIAL ANTHEM Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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