Selassie arrived back in Addis Ababa on 5 May , in the back of an Alfa Romeo, exactly five years to the day since the Italians had entered the capital.
Your Majesty was the first of the lawful sovereigns to be driven from his throne and country by the Fascist-Nazi criminals, and you are the first to return in triumph. Ethiopia remained under British administration for a few months, before having its sovereignty returned the following January. In , he abolished any legal basis for slavery, making several slave-related offences punishable by death. At the end of the Second World War , he continued his commitment to collective security — despite the disappointment of Geneva in — by signing his country up to the new United Nations.
Selassie continued to advance Ethiopia domestically too. His dignity is inviolable and His Power indisputable. In , Selassie helped found the Organisation of African Unity, drawing up its charter and successfully persuading 31 other independent African nations to join.
The political agility that had originally brought him to power seemingly knew no bounds; at the very height of the Cold War, he was even able to secure foreign aid from both the US and the USSR.
Despite being the subject of a failed coup in while in Brazil, Selassie continued his state visits. In , he made his most symbolic overseas appearance since his appeal to the League Of Nations 30 years before when he visited Jamaica. He shall be the redeemer. Having encouraged the education of his subjects, often at schools and universities overseas, the emperor was now open to criticism from these same citizens who could measure the slow speed of social and economic progress in their homeland.
In February , Addis Ababa saw four days of rioting, followed by an extended general strike the following month. He alone died on the cross for our sins. His second coming will be to destroy evil once and for all. Jesus Christ is the only way, truth and the life. Rastafarianism will only send you to hell, he cannot give you eternal life. I believe that Empror Haillie Salessie has a mission on this planet.
Everyone God made had different assignment. Why would Marcus Garvey disbelieve his prophecy,that Sallesie ran away from Mussolini attack does not reduce his influence.
The Wailers and his boys together with all the Rastafarian are welcome in their believe. The black truly are still looking ahead of who will save them from the imperialist.
Africa must be awake and get it right. Salessie has come and gone,wether it disappeared or dead,or split into the spirit of those who believe in him,the fight for Black man emancipation must go on. Well stated. Am sorry for the African youths who were born just the other day and have not even tasted slavery and yet smoke Marijuana as hell not knowing even the reality.
People are giving different views and opinions. If you are an African can you still feel the torture of mental slavery we are still going through.
We still got no power to fully enjoy our rights. The system still hold us while Babylonian rule having control of our mind. Let us emancipate.
Let all unite and raise the color of Africa. Haile Selassie,l and l, one love. Yasu's apparent conversion to Islam alienated the national, Christian church and gave impetus to the opposition movement led by Ras Tafari as Haile Selassie was now designated , which joined noble-men and high church officials in deposing Yasu in Zawditu, the daughter of Menilek, then became empress, with Ras Tafari appointed regent and heir to the throne.
Throughout the regency the Empress, conservative by inclination and more concerned with religion than politics, served to counteract Ras Tafari's rising interest in national modernization; the result was an uneasy coalition of conservative and reforming forces which lasted for nearly a decade. In Tafari took control of the army, an action which, when coupled with his previous success in foreign affairs, including admission of Ethiopia to the League of Nations in , made him strong enough to assume the title of negus king.
When Zawditu died in April , he demanded the title negasa negast king of kings and took complete control of the government with the throne name of Haile Selassie I "Power of the Trinity". In the new emperor promulgated a written constitution to symbolize his interest in modernization and intention to increase the power of central authority, which had been waning since the death of Menilek.
Haile Selassie's efforts were cut short, however, when Mussolini's Italy invaded the country in The Italian military deployed superior weaponry, airplanes, and poison gas to crush the ill-fated resistance led by the Emperor; the ensuing Fascist occupation marked the first loss of national independence in recorded Ethiopian history. In Haile Selassie went into exile in England, where he appealed in vain to the League of Nations for help.
He did not, however, accept their political help in rebuilding Ethiopia, believing they intended to undermine his authority. Selassie become increasingly concerned about outside influences in his nation and slowed the modernization process he had initiated upon becoming Emperor. Ethiopia increasingly became an autocratic state isolated from much of the rest of the world community.
His military rule of that region led to an independence campaign that triumphed finally on May 24, Ethiopia became a charter member of the United Nations in In he sent Ethiopian troops to fight under Allied command in Korea. Throughout the rest of the decade he traveled widely. In , for example, he became the first head of state to visit newly independent West Germany.
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