Word: fitaurari
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Almost unnoticed in the crowds of bearded, bedizened chieftains hurrying through Addis Ababa with their yelling followers fortnight ago was one Fitaurari Shimels, trusted adviser of Haile Selassie. Up from Harar, he stayed two days in the capital closeted with the Emperor, then departed. His powwows with the King...
...Emperor was imprisoned in a fortress on Gara Mulata. There he was allowed luxurious furniture, rich foods and the run of his prison-but night & day he remained chained to the wrist of a guard. Even so he managed to escape in 1932 disguised as a woman. Since then Fitaurari Shimels, who fortnight ago was in Addis Ababa for orders, has been Yasu's special keeper...
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