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At the beginning of 1936, Time named Selassie "Man of the Year" for 1935, [15] and his June 1936 speech made him an icon for anti-fascists around the world. He failed, however, to get the diplomatic and matériel support he needed. The League agreed to only partial sanctions on Italy, and Selassie was left without much-needed military equipment.
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The first volume covers 1892–1937, from Haile Selassie's birth until the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. He began writing it while in exile in Bath, England during that war; it covers his life and the administration and modernization of Ethiopia up to that point. The second volume covers 1936–1942, and Ethiopia's occupation by Italy and return ...
Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ Qädamawi Ḫäylä Śəllase, lit. ' Power of the Trinity ' ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari ; [ 4 ] 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) [ 5 ] was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
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On 30 June 1936, Haile Selassie traveled once to Geneva to plead with the League of Nations that Ethiopia not be officially recognized as part of Italian Empire. He also had European allies who traveled to Ethiopia to report the news about Ethiopian army struggling with Italy. [3] [7] [8] Haile Selassie talks at the League of Nations in Geneva ...
The 1974 Ethiopian Muslim protests, was a protest against the Haile Selassie regime that occurred on Saturday, April 20, 1974. [1] [2] [3] Protestors denounced the government for marginalizing the Muslim community and called for reforms.
Emperor Haile Selassie proclaimed a revised constitution in November 1955 of the Ethiopian Empire. The new constitution was intended to improve Ethiopia's international image. While it consolidated the Emperor's absolutist powers it introduced concepts such as the separation of powers and expanded the role of the Ethiopian parliament.