European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 05, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Haile Selassie promises full cooperation with . Story and photos by j.,� Sanderson � Ivr f f ,. Of the tribe of Selassie i. Elect of god emperor Ethiopia i not a simple thing. Ambassador has to Wrangle an appointment for you somewhere in the tight Palace schedule a full set of formal morn ing clothes Are required arid a protocol expert instructs you How to time your bows and Back away from the Imperial presence without tripping Over a Rug. Nevertheless an interview with Haileselasse can be rewarding from a news standpoint the emperor indicated Tota stats and stripes that when and if the a requires new and Safe air bases Ejier to soviet Russia Ethiopia will be Are in full agreement with the principle of collective Security he declared we will do everything necessary to catty out this policy including Aneas Lynden ended Home for relatively Short ranged Jet bombers that might affix Beable to operate from such Distant bakes As Morocco uid., the ,-mto i the emperor als said that he would like. To have american military advise Sand that Ethiopia will join the proposed Middle East defense pact if she is invited to. Now that the Empire has a coast line in Eritrea it also might not be amiss for Ethiopia to Jaye a Navy the emperor intimated. " " he revealed that a new battalion of ethiopian troops will soon be on its Wayto Korea where the reds rank them As among the in s toughest soldiers. To teasing a Khaki uniform with a shul Iff Der full of ribbons including the . Legion of Merit his majesty sat straighten the Edge of his chair like t3ie Field Marsha tie is and permitted himself Small but proud smile As he recalled a Story carried two weeks arlier in the weekly English language to utopian her ithe news Story a reprint fro pan dispatch said in part Over Are Cerit month ethiopian sol Diers have spread jeer in Juie a hearts of the communists Byj leafing them at their own nocturnal game. Are Ajoy to the ethiopian. The who the is How to use the silent Bayonet is Orwell a the ultimate Pride act the ethiopian battalion is that it ls1jempei�r i per Sonal bodyguard i individually a them e n would Rattler die in Bette thai disgrace the unit in any Way.1& eth Laplan Soldier has been captured 4ni?lie", battalion never failed to take a Haile a Assle Caia hav donor 8 Fless an up Esteil totem it s v a i / Addis a Abife a beant3fui"td&, a o r because it is by anus of i ays Laii any thin above buildings a Miof leisurely donkeys wander Down lanes bordered with one Story whitewashed Day houses roofed with corrugated Iron and shaded there Are some tears but Rno Iby Ine Cit trots about fee Hind one horse two Man rubber tired sullies. The climate is per feet except for the Rainy season a perpetual Indian summer. Ethe Universal male dress consists of Bare feet jodhpurs called English Pant Sand apparently copied from an 1870 Puni Tive expedition a Bush jacket a kind of shawl. Haile Selassie Beard and an Over size pith helmet worn for sartorial ele. Gance rather than necessity. Addis is also a cosmopolitan City. The swedes run the air Force and the Tele graph the French control the railway and a. Britishers advises the customs depart ment. The dutch Are in Coffee the Swiss in hotels the greeks and armenians in Small business and the italians against whom there is remarkably Little ill feel ing Jare the mechanics and artisans. There Are plenty of americans,1 especially in banking and the Imperial High Way commission. Every ethiopian air Hjertta Twa subsidiary brings in an other Point in Man and us information service Fai outdistanced the soviet in formation office with its lectures Library film shows and handouts. The russian Hospital incidentally was established bythe czars in 1896 and is definitely not a Center for red spies in Africa. There Are Only 26 soviet citizens in Ethiopia . Missionaries work up country a Large share of Ethiopia s teachers Are american All classes Over 5th Grade con ducted., in English and the Myca Secretary has been blocking traffic in a main Square with crowds of 8,000 to 10,000 who come to hear his lectures on health and Jed. Addis has 4,000 Beer Parlours usually staffed with casual but Good looking girls. That Ethiopia tugged one Way by foreigners and another by isolationist cop tic priests and Feudal Barons has no turned into another Macao or another Tibet is due entirely to the progressive but Iron willed character of one Man Haile Selassie _ k not the direct descendant of Menelik a son born after a too successful diplomatic Mission by the Queen of Tieba to thing Solomon although All of Ethiopia s genealogists labor to prove that the longest dynasty in history remains in fact Menelik visited his Fathey when he grew up the ethiopians drought Bac the Ark of. The covenant As a souvenir to Ethiopia where it i it tried today by Gresis Mph a a a a by monastery. Quick thinking Solomon is of supposed Thaye had. Anotn Sec Ark Maine in secret Halle Selassie the Teg Ehoff the last Empress tin til her a e a t a of Cal himself crooned in 1930 largely owing to the fact that he built up in Imperial bodyguard still i a he was & popular ruler at his Call every ethiopian male Rose to arms to fight a the ethiopian emperor chats with author Sanderson in the Palace at Addis Apte Sanderson wears the required formal dress borrowed from an embassy off Tatai Quarter of a million italian troops equipped with modern planes and tanks. The ethiopian. Patriots fantastic As i sounds a e led by 2,500 British a few units of the Sudan defense Force a string of camels and a couple dozen ancient Fords carrying machine gun plat forms. %,.- .,.,-. the period from May 1, 1936, when he fled Addis to May 5, 1941, when he re turned in Triumph the emperor Wen the sympathy and respect of the outside in Addis today always refer to him As his majesty rather than As the emperor or Haile his natural dignity commands a Situa Tion which could take on comic opera overtones. Custom for example demand that the populace Bow As the emperor drives through the streets. If you happen to be in a. Vehicle you _ pull Over get out and do likewise. The Imperial Lions used to be regularly paraded on a Leash. Now they pad about in a modern zoo Cage and the Public comes to them. The Palace built in 1934 an surrounded by a High Wall is not especially extravagant and looks More like French chateau of no particular period. It is decorated with. Great restraint in Side. V i. is a waiting room at the Entrance then you turn a. Corner and with his majesty s private Secretary at your Side walk Down a Hall in full View of the pm jail Peir who is sitting in a Small Apartina at the end. In the doorway you and the Swaffi Tumbow you wondering if the striped by borrowed from an embassy official any danger of splitting. Half Way into fit room you Bow again and the stands up. You Bow a third time front of him. If he offers he shake hands. He gestures and Yoa the tails of your morning coat Down. The talk is formal and translated pc Amharic by the Secretary majesty Speaks excellent French Andl Gopf englisis. The talk is of Mau Mau in a of Russia s rulers of Progress in of Point in he has High Hopes for an agricultural College Andonian troops and their training on a dead run before rifles Over their shoulders. The emperor Speaks briefly Point. With is Black Beard and erect bearing he seems troops. When it is Over you backroom with the Secretary bows which. In each Case Are by a slight Bow from the How Itlen t an obeisance but Mutual Courtesy. You can t help that a Man like tvs whatever Tona is a worthy ally in Korea place else. Of. M Tif Jiff li6n-r Jodah sporting a shone Kerful of i Lay ii Witni is tt-Sborn-Royal ogs. A Royal Palace in the capital Citer 9l a dolls Abbasi was constructed 1bs1934two years before he invade off italian army hit Ethiopia
