Show Rhodes Wasted His Time In the latter part of the Nineteenth Nineteenth Nineteenth Nine Nine- century during the imperialistic imperial imperial- scramble for African territory England was ac accused used of having aspirations aspirations aspirations as as- for a railroad from the cape to Cairo through British all-British territory Today that railroad is still incomplete and probably never will be completed The obstacles now however are not political as they once were Instead they are economic for the locomotive has to compete with the airplane and the motor car Thus ends Cecil Rhodes' Rhodes dream on which he lavished so much time and intrigue Defeated in his own time by the political difficulties difficulties difficulties dif dif- dif dif- of the project he would if he were alive today find that he had wasted his time and that invention invention invention in in- rather than intrigue had solved the problem S |