IMPERIAL POLITICS.
RIDICULING* THE FLAG. London, December 13. The House of Commons, by 266 to 166, rejected Mr. Hattersley’s clause making the Union Jack the Irish flag. Mr. MacVeagh, in a flippant speech, asked why Ireland was forbidden io do what every colony and Dominion was allowed to do.
Mr. Birrell said that a compulsory flag would not encourage loyalty. Compulsory loyalty was as impossible as compulsory religion or Greek.
Mr. Balfour denounced Mr. MacYeagh’s ridiculing the Union Jack. He recalled the United States’ insistence on the symbolism of a national flag.
Mr. Redmond said that the Union Jack would fly at Dublin as a symbol of Empire, alongside the green flag as a sign of local nationality, whereof every Irishman was proud. The Bill passed committee, the Liberals enthusiastically cheering the Prime Minister and Ministers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 3
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136IMPERIAL POLITICS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 3
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