Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last racial issue in the Union of South Africa was last week removed when Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, now leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly (lower House) at Cape Town, agreed that henceforth the Union Jack should be flown from official buildings in all large towns. In addition a new South African flag, in every respect co-equal with the Union Jack, was decided upon...
...national flag consists of three broad horizontal stripes of orange, white & blue. In the white stripe, from left to right, are a small Union Jack, an Orange Free State flag, and a Transvaal Vierkleur flag, the latter two being republican emblems. The three flags occupy one-third of the white stripe or one-ninth of the whole flag and embody five colors: red, white, blue, orange, green...
Both the Union Jack and the new South African flag are the official national flags. In English-speaking parts of the Union, they may be flown together; in Dutch-speaking parts, they may be flown separately. This to overcome the sensibilities of British Africanders and Boer Africanders. The flag dispute in South Africa has been the cause of violent recriminations between the Boer and the British population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign...
...tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...
...Blackburn '29, Durke Bodde '30, J. F. Carr '28, E. F. Clark '28, N. R. Danielian '28, L. L. Driggs '28, P. T. Haskell '28, S. C. Henry '29, Louis Kerness '29, A. S. Rudd '29, Reid Ryan '28, W. J. Salmon '30, Alexander Stollmeyer '30. Coach Jack Kershaw, and S. W. R. Langdon...