The main concession which General Hertzods Govern- ment has made
so far is that it is willing to admit the Union Jack to the new flag, but only in such a form that it would occupy a quarter of a small shield placed upon a ground of orange, white and blue stripes. This could not , possibly satisfy people of British birth in South Africa, who, after all, only ask that the British and Dutch emblems should receive- equal treatment. It may be answered that the Government have offered to fly the Union Jack by itself, on stated occasions, as sym- bolical of the Imperial connexion. In a striking letter to the Times the other day Sir William Ava Campbell said . that if this proposal to give the Union Jack a status of its own had come from any other 'Government but General Hertzog's it would have been hailed as "a great and glorious idea." That was a generous admission and the argument has reason in it.
