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during the last four years, and such politics, I contend, will be in
future most intimately connected with the settlement of the South
African Question, for I believe that whatever State possesses
Bechuanaland and Matabeleland will ultimately possess South Africa." It
was his view, asserted in repeated conversa tions with Mr. Edward
Dicey, that the taking of Rhodesia necessitated the creation of a
predominant South African Confederacy, which would be brought to pass
by the force of circumstance. In the interest of South Africa and
Great Britain Rhodes sought the inclusion of this Confederacy in the
British Empire.
