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With Haile Selassie. "The President stressed communications between the United States and Ethiopia and said he hoped, with improvements of communications, particularly by air, the two countries would come to know each other better." Postwar access to Ethiopian air and airports was recently a point of conflict between the U.S. and Britain, was settled (by agreement between Ethiopia and Britain) in the U.S.'s favor...
...Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically, the Ethiopian Government could now choose foreign advisers "wherever it wishes." Presumably this referred to the U.S., which has sent missions to Addis Ababa...
Super-careful South African censors finally released a story of the days when the Italians were rampant and the Allies unprepared. Back in 1940 a South African crew took an ancient Valencia biplane loaded with supplies, ferried them to a Kenya outpost south of Mussolini's then-powerful Ethiopian empire. At dinner an engineer told them about a nearby Italian fort "simply waiting to be bombed...
Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
...Ethiopian Minister to the U.S., His Excellency Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, thinks he can find the teachers. His idea is to import U.S. Negroes to replace the slaughtered teachers of Ethiopia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People favors the proposal, points out that many U.S. Negroes have gone to Liberia to teach...