Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...
Under federation, Ethiopia (pop. 15 million) will have the dominant voice in defense, foreign affairs, currency, taxation and customs, communications and ports. Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000) will manage its own internal affairs through its elected assembly and a chief executive...
...Powerful Ethiopian. Since Ethiopia has neither general elections nor a free press, many Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting...
...country does not have a single native graduate engineer, architect, chemist or agricultural expert; in all Ethiopia there is only one native physician. Selassie must rely on foreign help to bolster his ministries. Americans, who predominate among his advisers, govern the national bank, edit the official newspaper, run the nationalized airline, and direct highway construction. A Swedish military mission trains the Imperial Guard and a fledgling air force...
Under Any Name. On the speaker's stand, Borghese talks loftily and in generalities. The more raucous Fascist political effects are left to the moth-eaten old (69) Lion of Ethiopia, Rodolfo Graziani, recently arrested for giving the Fascist salute at the funeral of Mussolini's sister...