CENTENARY OF CECIL RHODES
ECIL RHODES is not one of the notables discussed in The British Overseas, but the man and his work in Africa are summed up in a separate. NZBS programme which 2YC_ will broadcast at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2. This ‘portrait has been written: by Frank Simpson to mark the 100th anniversary of Rhodes’s birth, which falls this year. Rhodes was a man who had no doubt about what the destiny of the English should be. "I contend," he said, "that we, the English, are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race,’I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence. . . The wish came to me to render myself useful to my country. What part shall I play? The furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole civilised — world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one empire. What a dream! But yet it is probable: it is possible." Cecil Rhodes: A Portrait, will be repeated from 2YA at 8.28 p.m. on September 25,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 7
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