Ninety years ago, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie stood before the League of Nations in Geneva and appealed for help in the Abyssinian War.
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I on June 30, 1936 before the League of Nations in Geneva.
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Ninety years ago, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie stood before the League of Nations in Geneva and appealed for help in the Abyssinian War. Although his plea ultimately fell on deaf ears, his speech went down in history as a defining symbolic moment.
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