The quick mind of Mr. Tielman Roos saved the day, and as suddenly as it began the flag issue ended with not one flag but two, the Union Jack and the Union Flag. The arrangement permitted the Union Jackers of Natal to rejoice in the news that “Natal has won the Day,” while the Nationalists claimed that not a principle of theirs had been sacrificed.
1986, Eileen Dorum, Percy Grainger: The Man Behind the Music, Hawthorn, Victoria: IC & EE Dorum, →ISBN, page 108:
“I have collected hundreds of £ in America for various funds . . . but not one single sou or cent has any damned soul, brought up under the British flag, vouchsafed . . . […]” There is a strong element of “if the cap fits” in the tone of Legge’s letter. […] “All kinds of yarns are going about there as to the ‘politics’ of many Union Jackers in the USA and many are ugly indeed.”
2005, Ewan Morris, “From symbols of party to symbols of state: the flag and anthem of the Irish Free State”, in Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 46:
Some republicans even declared that they were more opposed to the Free State’s use of the tricolour than to the display of the Union Jack on Armistice Day: the ‘Union Jackers’, said a delegate to the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in 1925, were at least true to their flag.”
