Cecil Rhodes

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CECIL RHODES
Man and Empire-Maker
by
PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILL (CATHERINE
KOLB-DANVIN)
With Eight Photogravure Plates
Cassell & Company, Ltd London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1918

[Illustration: THE RT. HON. CECIL RHODES]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
1. CECIL RHODES AND SIR ALFRED MILNER 1 2. THE
FOUNDATIONS OF FORTUNE 17 3. A COMPLEX
PERSONALITY 28 4. MRS. VAN KOOPMAN 40 5. RHODES AND
THE RAID 50 6. THE AFTERMATH OF THE RAID 69 7. RHODES
AND THE AFRIKANDER BOND 82 8. THE INFLUENCE OF SIR
ALFRED MILNER 104 9. THE OPENING OF THE NEW CENTURY
120 10. AN ESTIMATE OF SIR ALFRED MILNER 130 11. CROSS
CURRENTS 144 12. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS 157 13. THE
PRISONERS' CAMPS 170 14. IN FLIGHT FROM THE RAND 191

15. DEALING WITH THE REFUGEES 202 16. UNDER MARTIAL
LAW 214 CONCLUSION INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE RT. HON. CECIL RHODES Frontispiece
Facing page
THE RT. HON. W.P. SCHREINER 32 PRESIDENT KRUGER 68
THE HON. J.H. HOFMEYR 86 THE RT. HON. SIR W.F.
HELY-HUTCHINSON 98 VISCOUNT MILNER 132 THE RT. HON.
SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON 148 THE RT. HON. SIR JOHN
GORDON SPRIGG 224

INTRODUCTION
The recent death of Sir Starr Jameson reminded the public of the South
African War, which was such an engrossing subject to the British
public at the close of the 'nineties and the first years of the present
century. Yet though it may seem quite out of date to reopen the
question when so many more important matters occupy attention, the
relationship between South Africa and England is no small matter. It
has also had its influence on actual events, if only by proving to the
world the talent which Great Britain has displayed in the administration
of her vast Colonies and the tact with which British statesmen have
contrived to convert their foes of the day before into friends, sincere,
devoted and true.
No other country in the world could have achieved such a success as
did England in the complicated and singularly difficult task of making
itself popular among nations whose independence it had destroyed.
The secret of this wonderful performance lies principally in the care
which England has exercised to secure the welfare of the annexed

population, and to do nothing likely to keep them in remembrance of
the subordinate position into which they had been reduced. England
never crushes those whom it subdues. Its inbred talent for colonisation
has invariably led it along the right path in regard to its colonial
development. Even in cases where Britain made the weight of its rule
rather heavy for the people whom it had conquered, there still
developed among them a desire to remain federated to the British
Empire, and also a conviction that union, though it might be unpleasant
to their personal feelings and sympathies, was, after all, the best thing
which could have happened to them in regard to their material interests.
Prosperity has invariably attended British rule wherever it has found
scope to develop itself, and at the present hour British patriotism is far
more demonstrative in India, Australia or South Africa than it is in
England itself. The sentiments thus strongly expressed impart a certain
zealotism to their feelings, which constitutes a strong link with the
Mother Country. In any hour of national danger or calamity this trait
provides her with the enthusiastic help of her children from across the
seas.
The Englishman, generally quiet at home and even subdued in the
presence of strangers, is exuberant in the Colonies; he likes to shout his
patriotism upon every possible occasion, even when it would be better
to refrain. It is an aggressive patriotism which sometimes is quite
uncouth in its manifestations, but it is real patriotism, disinterested and
devoid of any mercenary or personal motives.
It is impossible to know what England is if one has not had the
opportunity of visiting her Dominions oversea. It is just as impossible
to judge of Englishmen when one has only seen them at home amid the