*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by anointing He has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred.
The Allies\' conquest of Ethiopia formed a cornerstone of the early phases of the North Africa Campaign during World War II, and the dramatic advance of Allied forces on Addis Ababa in the spring of 1941 place.
From there, he was granted asylum in Britain.
On May 2, 1936, as the Italian army bore down on the capital at Addis Ababa, Emperor Haile Selassie boarded a train and fled east to the French territory of Djibouti.
The Italians, led by Benito Mussolini, were practically unassailable at that point, and while a bold resistance was mounted to hold back their invasion, the effort was ultimately futile.
Rallying his subjects against the invaders was Negus Negusti, the King of Kings, Emperor Haile Selassie, the last ruler of the great Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia.
On the eve of that war, in the autumn of 1935, as the forces of imperial Italy prepared to invade the sovereign territory of Ethiopia, the leaders of the Allies brimmed with sympathy for the imperiled African kingdom but offered nothing in the way of practical assistance.
Before World War II, few in the West had ever heard of Abyssinia, and fewer still could point to a map and tell precisely where it was.
The first of these was that no recognition of annexation would granted without evidence of a practical occupation, and the second, that a practical occupation would be deemed unlawful without a formal appeal for protection made on behalf of a territory by its leader, a plea that must be committed to paper in the form of a legal treaty.
The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
This event-known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885-galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa.
In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa\'s colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. - Article 4 of the revised Constitution of Ethiopia (1955) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history.
His dignity is inviolable and His power indisputable. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by anointing He has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred
