Italian invasion of Abyssinia - Resource Sheet
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“The Girls he left behind him”
Low, 10 May 1935
“The man who took the lid off”
Low, 4 Oct 1935
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Oil and Argument
Low, 19 February 1936
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Haile Selassie protests to the League against the Italian invasion
- Quoted in the New York Times, 1 July 1936
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In October 1935, Italian troops invade my territory……
In that unequal struggle between a government commanding more
than 42,000,000 inhabitants and having at its disposal financial,
industrial and technical means which enabled it to create unlimited
quantities of the most death-dealing weapons, and on the other hand,
a small people of 12,000,000 inhabitants, without arms, without
resources and having on its side only the justice of its cause and the
promise of the League of Nations, what real assistance was given to
Ethiopia by the fifty-two nations who had declared the Rome
Government guilty of a breach of the covenant……?
I assert that the problem submitted to the Assembly today is much
wider than merely a question of settlement of Italian aggression; it is
collective security, it is the very existence of the League.
Representatives of the world. What reply have I to take back to my
people?
The Awful Warning