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	Interior 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.