FLAGS ON ANZAC DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18625, 2 May 1932, Page 9

FLAGS ON ANZAC DAY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l noticed that all the flags exhibited at Soldiers’ Memorial Parle on Anzac Day were those of the allied forces during the war. It seems rather a mockery of the high-sounding talk indulged in about international co-operation and abolition of petty national jealousies when the same l old 1014 spirit is perpetuated in 1932. It is-said that it is the little things that count. Surely those responsible for organising the service would have given a better impression if they had draped a few German, Austrian and Turkish flags around the platform, if not on the Cenotaph. After all, these countries are all members of tho League of Nations, which is now universally recognised as the only hope if civilisation is to survive. .The excuse may be made that no flags of the former enemy countries were available. Well,-they should be especially made and ordered for the occasion. On Anzac Day the French flag was associated with the Union Jack, yet France to-day is the stumbling-block to disarmament and one of the most belligerent nations of Europe. Here is inconsistency of the first magnitude. Let there bo more humility, common sense, and boardminded diplomacy exercised in these commemorations in the future, instead of an attitude which might readily be mistaken for mere blind tradition and narrow patriotism.—l am, etc., PEACE ADVOCATE. Hamilton, April 29, 1932.