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With Cecil Rhodes looking on approvingly from a portrait on the wall, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, cool, cultivated chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., reported on the state of the world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies...
...Kimberley last week, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who is also chairman of Diamond Corp., was as optimistic about diamonds as his fellow South African, General Jan Christiaan .Smuts was pessimistic about gold. Operations were resumed last year at the Dutoitspan mine. With the world once more buying diamonds, said Sir Ernest, two other mines would soon be reopened: Bultfontein and Wesselton. Jagersfontein and Premier, where the great Cullinan diamond, world's largest (3,106 carats— 1 2/5 lb.), was found, would have to await larger quotas to permit profitable operation...
...great estate of the de Beers diamond tycoons near Kimberley, Lord Hyde, 29, son & heir of the Governor General of South Africa, was out with a party of friends shooting springbok. Rushing forward into the bush he tripped over an anthill, dropped his gun, shot himself dead...
...famed socialite, Lord Hyde was married three years ago before the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, a privilege generally reserved for royalty. The Bishop of Kimberley said services for him on the railway platform, a special train carried his body to Cape Town en route to Britain...
...home, to Oxford, but his lungs sent him back again. Later he used to say that he left England not so much for love of adventure or on account of his health, as "because he could no longer stand the eternal cold mutton." Diamonds had just been discovered at Kimberley (1870). Rhodes got in on the ground floor, was soon making ?100 a week. At 27 he founded de Beers Mining Co., soon had control of practically all South Africa's diamond fields-90% of the world's diamonds. He entered the South African Parliament, and nine years...