WHAT MAKES A FLAG?
"With all respect to the ensigns which great nations have suddenly created, it may be said that a national ■flag needs time to appeal to national sentiment and. command nation'al loyalty, and in the passing of time is apt to evolve into something different from the original design. Some 'historians would add confidently that if it is to be truly national it must derive from emblems already well known and honoured by the nation. The Union Jack itself is something which was not made, but grew. That the combination of the crosses is the consequence of Acts of Parliament is, of course, true, but is only part of the truth. Not [statute law, but [he fact of the union of the peoples of the British Isles to build up the British State is the effective cause of the Union Jack." —Daily Telegraph, in a. leader discujssing the proposed new South African flag.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1784, 20 July 1926, Page 7
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156WHAT MAKES A FLAG? Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1784, 20 July 1926, Page 7
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