EMPEROR CHEERED.
BIGHT TO ADDRESS LEAGUE UPHELD. UPROAR RAISED BY ITALIAN JOURNALISTS. GENEVA, June 30. A large cheering crowd watched the arrival of Haile Selassie. A meeting of the Assembly Bureau had decided earlier that the Emperor has every right to address the League. Mr. de Valera (Irish Free State) said that the question was not even able to be discussed, but the Swiss and Hungarian representatives raised objections. Haile Selassie tried to make himself as inconspicuous as possible as he slipped into the hall while Mr. Anthony Eden was reading a letter from Dr. Benes resigning the presidency of the Assembly. The Emperor sat in the place reserved for Abyssinian delegates, the official list of which included eleven from Abyssinia, headed “His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie L” The public and Press galleries were crowded, and a battery of film cameras faced the president’s rostrum. This is the first time that any sovereign has participated in a session of the League. The Emperor listened attentively as Mr. Eden praised Dr. Benes’s work and asked the Assembly to telegraph its thanks to the Czech President. When the Negus ascended the tribune whistling and shouts of “Viva Mussolini’’ broke out, drowning cheering from delegates, and the session was suspended in hubbub while officials searched for the interrupters. It was discovered that they were a group of a dozen Italian journalists, whom the police seized, bundled into taxicabs, and took to the police station. Haile Selassie, unperturbed, stood calmly at the tribune, his eye fixed on the delegates, awaiting silence.
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Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 7
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257EMPEROR CHEERED. Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 7
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