The ETHIOPIAN CHURCH Journal

Note: The article below is sourced from New Lines Magazine . Photo of Emperor Haile Selassie speaking to the League of Nations in 1936 is not in the original. To get a fuller account of what transpired during the emperor's stay in England and in subsequent years, one has to read other accounts, especially, Peter P. Garretson's, A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist:  The Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin (Boydell & Brewer, 2013). Let's remember few facts: Britain was a) a signatory to the League's collective security agreement and, along with others, failed to uphold it at a time of Ethiopia's need b) Britain found it convenient to stand against Fascist Italy to later outmaneuver it c) Emperor Haile Selassie was treated shabbily and held as a trophy, until Britain had a free hand to execute its original plan of influencing Ethiopian affairs and those of its neighbors d) Britain sealed the borders with Kenya, Sudan, and Somaliland s...