Word: ato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest Nileside office -"probably the only office in Cairo," said a reporter, "without a picture of Nasser." He seated his guests-Menzies, U.S. Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies, a tough Tory of the Churchillian school, launched into an explanation of the Dulles plan...
...charge that Communist China was an aggressor was a "fairy tale." There were only Chinese "volunteers" in Korea. South Africa was next. Its position: firmly with the U.S. Then a man took the floor who should have given the laggards among the delegates some uneasy moments. He was Ato Gachaou Zallaka, a small, neat Ethiopian. In a fast, four-minute speech delivered in French, he simply warned that the "sad experience" of the League of Nations, which permitted his country to be invaded, should not be repeated...
National Assembly to decide between independence and federation with Ethiopia. Foreign Minister Ato Abte-Wold Aklilou, Haile Selassie's spokesman, insisted that Eritrea belonged to their country, was Ethiopia's rightful window on the sea. Fourteen other nations, including the U.S., moved that Eritrea be given home rule within a great Ethiopia. The committee approved the resolution, dispatched it to the full Assembly...