The puzzle is why the quarrel ever arose. When General
Hertzog declared his satisfaction with the definition given by the Imperial Conference of the status of South Africa, the design of a flag could not possibly affect the constitutional principle thus settled. As Mr. Roos has pointed out, the Flag controversy was the last of those controversies that divided British and Dutch in South Africa. " The things that bind us," he added, " are stronger than the things that separate us. Never has there been such a friendly feeling between the white races as there is to-day." The way is now clear for a long overdue rearrangement of party allegiances. Many men have cohered to this or that party for racial reasons, although in regard to most domestic political questions their true political home was elsewhere.
