Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second the title of Emperor is assumed for himself and his heirs by the King of Italy...
Back at the King David Hotel, a doctor allowed Haile Selassie to have only one visitor, a British bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed...
...room in the King David Hotel porters carried a large radio set so that the Emperor might listen to Benito Mussolini's speech annexing Ethiopia (see col. 3). The Negus could stand only half of it, nervously snapped off the switch, went to bed all of a tremble...
...office. Most of the crowd started to stream across the city and up the hill to Vittorio Emanuele's Palazza del Quirinale. Radio announcers read the two brief decrees just approved by the Grand Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio, Marquis of Sabotino...
...Imperatore! Imperatore! Salute Imperatore!" chanted the crowd when Vittorio Emanuele, in full Army uniform, showed himself on a balcony. The first Roman Emperor in 1,460 years raised his withered hand to the visor of his cap, said nothing...