Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council meeting was scheduled for 5 o'clock. At 4:45 p. m. Belaten Guetta Wolde Mariam Ayelen, Ethiopia's League delegate, accompanied by his secretary and Swiss legal adviser, arrived at the Palace, went directly to the Council room. In a few minutes in walked Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Anthony Eden and other members of the Council. Captain Eden gravely presided...
Anthony Eden banged on the table : "I invite the delegate from Ethiopia to take his place at the Council table for discussion of this question...
...room stalked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as Ethiopia's Mariam rose to read a pitiful telegram from nerve-shattered Haile Selassie, begging the League to "take no action that would legitimize Italy's outrageous aggression...
Early next morning the Enterprise was warped into a pier at Haifa, Palestine. A gangplank was run ashore and perspiring British sailors began unloading the personal treasure of Ethiopia's fugitive Emperor: six automobiles, ten tons of trunks, boxes, bales and other personal baggage, a pet python, 100 steel-bound cases containing coins and bullion. Only a pistol shot away lay the Italian steamer Carnaro loaded with pilgrims for the Holy Land...
...every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky cheeks...