Word: ras
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...democratic Eastern potentate seems a contradiction in terms, but an American missionary, just returned to the U. S., gives the following account of H. R. H. Ras Taffari, of Abyssinia...
...Some very great man is riding out today,' I thought to myself. . . . A little group riding together now came in the midst of the crowd. . . . Yes, it most certainly was, His Highness, Ras Taffari himself, the ruler of Abyssinia...
...officer said that he [the ruler] did not ask anyone to do a work that he was not willing to do himself. Ras Taffari was inducing his subjects to build roads...
...Ras Taffari is not the Emperor of Abyssinia, but the heir to the throne. The nominal ruler of the land is Empress Waizern Zauditu (Ras Taffari is her second cousin). She was proclaimed the Empress of Abyssinia in September, 1916, after her nephew, Lij Yasu, was deposed by public proclamation. The Empress was crowned at Addis Abbaba, capital of Abyssinia, Feb. 11, 1917. The Empress keeps herself very much in the background and the affairs of the State are thus largely in the hands of Ras Taffari...