1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Addresses League of Nations
Reel #: 308 This clip is available for licensing without time code and logo - To inquire about licensing email us at Myfootage@gmail.com or call us at (212) 620-3955 - Please Subscribe to our channel, as we are constantly adding new clips. Thanks! 1936 NEWS: EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE OF ETHIOPIA ADDRESSES LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Keywords Time: 1930s, 1936 Setting: Geneva, Switzerland, Italy, Ethiopia People: Haile Selassie, Anthony Eden, Maxim Litvinov, Leon Blum, Mussolini Objects: podium, 1930s automobile Subjects: Italian Colonialism, Ethiopia independence, ethiopian independence, league of nations address, lift Italian sanctions With great footage of Selassie, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Soviet Delegate Maxim Litvinov, and French Premier Leon Blum.
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Addresses League of Nations
Haile Selassie's Appeal to the League of Nations
In this section, Haile Selassie comes to plead for his lost Empire and wants the League of Nations to make Mussolini give up Ethiopia. However, instead of helping him, the statesmen have decided to lift the sanctions against Italy.
Haile Selassie's Speech
- Emperor Menelik Haile Selassie is introduced in English and gives a speech in the Empiric language.
- Italian newspaper men are ready for an outbreak against the Emperor whose country their country has taken waiting for his first words.
- Disturbance breaks out but is quelled with lights turned out.
- The Emperor makes his appeal but gets no help as the league lifts sanctions against Italy.