SPEECH BY EMPEROR
GUEST AT LUNCHEON CONFIDENCE IN LEAGUE LONDON, June 11 The Emperor, Haili Selassie, attended his first official luncheon in England to-day when he was the guest of the League of Nations Union. Professor Gilbert Murray, the chairman of the executive committee, proposed the Emperor's health. In his reply the Emperor said there was current an unfortunate tendency to consider that the League in its present form was incapable of continued existence or of further action in the present war.
Abyssinians in Wollo, Chercher and other occupied provinces were rising against their oppressors, and in the west one-third of Ethiopia was still under the government of its lawful authorities. This, was not the moment for the abandonment of confidence in the League. Haili Selassie will go to Vevy, on the north side of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne, on Wednesday. He will occup.v his own chalet there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 14
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