Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
Haile SelassiePeace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile SelassieLike twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.
Haile SelassieAs man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
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