TWO INTERESTING LETTERS. VIEWS OF THE LATE MR. CECIL RHODES.
(Received September 2, 7.68 a.m.) LONDON, Ist September. Dr. Jameson, as one of the executors of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes's will, has forwarded- to The Times the originals Of two letters dated May, 1891, which were discovered among Mr. Rhodes's papers. The first was addressed to the late Sir John Mac Donald, then Premier of Canada, asking — "Can we invent some tie with the Motherland that will prevent separation? The curse is that" English politicians cannot see the future. They think Britain will always be the world's manufacturing mart, and fail to understand what protection, coupled with reciprocal relations, means." The second letter invited the co-opera-tion of Sir Henry Parkes, who at the time was Premier of New South Wales, m securing from tfhe Motherland preferential consideration for colonial products as a means of maintaining Imperial connection.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1903, Page 5
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TWO INTERESTING LETTERS. VIEWS OF THE LATE MR. CECIL RHODES.
Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1903, Page 5
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