Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addison E. Southard, U. S. Minister at Addis Ababa, respectfully sent a recent issue of the Berhanena Salam to the U. S. State Department. The Government's semi-official organ, printed on Emperor Haile Selassie's private press, only paper with a national circulation in Abyssinia. (Abyssinians are more than 90% illiterate), Berhanena Salam's leading editorial was marked for Statesman Stimson's consideration. Extolling the virtues of Temperance, expounding the evils of tej (native liquor, made from honey), the editorial was released by the State Department "not as Prohibition propaganda but as interesting reading." Excerpts...
Just prior to the Coronation of the Emperor Power of Trinity I of Abyssinia the Associated Press reported from Addis Ababa that Colonel Julian, "then chief of the Abyssinian Air Force, had crashed in the presence of His Majesty, destroying a plane which had been a Coronation gift and so enraging Power of Trinity I that he stripped him of all honors, ordered him out of the country in such poverty that the U. S. colony in Addis Ababa had to make up a purse to pay the Black Eagle's fare home (TIME...
Swaying their supple bodies violently, Coptic Christian priests followed their Archbishop up the aisle of St. George's Cathedral in Addis Ababa (New Flower), Abyssinian capital. The chill air, blue with incense, reeked with the smoke of native tallow candles, throbbed to wild strains. Cried the Archbishop, lifting high the crown, "God has anointed thee to rule with Justice...
Landing at Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden, Ambassador & Mrs. Jacoby and their suite entered a private train for the 780-mi. journey to New Flower, the tin-roofed capital of the King of Kings. New Flower, or Addis Ababa, is hidden among mighty mountains at an altitude of more than 6,000 ft. To this barbaric stronghold the Jacobys carried officially an autographed photograph of President Hoover, described as "handsomely framed." Unofficial, privately-paid-for U. S. Coronation gifts include...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...