Great Canadian Flag Debate red flag for the nation's centennial celebrations. It was designed to appeal to those who were used to the Red Ensign and had not yet become accustomed to the Maple Leaf Flag. The Canadian Red Ensign itself can sometimes be seen today in Canada, often in connection to veterans' associations. In addition, the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario adopted their own versions of the Red Ensign as their respective provincial flags in the wake of the national flag debate. On the other hand, Newfoundland used the Union Flag as its provincial flag from 1952 until 1980; the blue triangles on
The King and Country debate ignored British demands. Martin Ceadel, reviewing the German coverage of the "King and Country Debate", notes that although it was widely covered in Germany, the Nazis did not seem to have made political capital out of it: "indeed, the London correspondent of the "Völkischer Beobachter" was in 1933 stressing rather the militarism of British youth". Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, the "Völkischer Beobachter" was still "insisting that the Oxford debate was insignificant". Churchill would, after the war, write on how Japan and Germany too took note of the Joad resolution, which altered their way of thinking about