SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG
UNPLEASANT CHAPTER CLOSED
WHOLE COUNTRY SATISFIED.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
CAPE TOWN, October 27*. Tho country as a whole appears to bo accepting the flag settlement in a fine spirit, and in the belief that the last great racial issue has been removed.
The Premier made a fine gesture towards the English-speaking members by agreeing at the last moment to make his statement in English. It was a great speech, and a triumph of terse sincerity, and loud cheers greeted the pronouncement. An unpleasant chapter in {South African history has been closed. General Smuts, on behalf of the Opposition, made a moving appeal that the country should love the new flag as the flag of a united South; Africa. Dr Malan, the Minister responsible lor the Bill, suggested that the Flag Bill should come into operation on Union Day, May 31, the day commemorating tho end of the struggle between Briton and Boer.
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Evening Star, Issue 19699, 28 October 1927, Page 7
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