Principal of Birmingham University : ' Short Lives of Great Men —VI, Cecil Rhodes. ' Relayed from Birmingham
IN his last talk this afternoon,
Principal Grant Robertson deals with the life of the last of the great English Imperialists. Imperialism has gone out of fnsliion now, to be replaced by internationalism. But Rhodes lives in history as a man who had tho determination and brain to make a vast fortune ; the vision to foresee and plan a united South Africa under the British Bag, and a Cape to Cairo railway ; the imagination to choose his own tomb in the solitary grandeur of the Matoppo Hills. But perhaps his truest claim to remembrance was his belief in the future of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the friendship of England and the United States.