WAR SETTLEMENT AND ITALY’S RETURN
At the various meetings of the Council of
Foreign Ministers in London and Paris and of their deputies as well at the
Peace Conference through Our Delegates We have set forth to the world the
position of Ethiopia in regard to the return to Ethiopia of territories taken
from her by Italian aggression. As first victim of Axis aggression in Europe
and the first of the United Nations to be liberated, Ethiopia feels justified
in declaring as she has already declared at the Paris Peace Conference, that
any return of Italy to such territories would constitute ratification of three
aggressions and an act of international injustice. It should be understandable
that Ethiopia cannot possibly countenance any return of Italy to such
territories other than as a direct and instant threat to one of the United
Nations. We are confident that the world will readily understand that the
security of Ethiopia would be completely compromised if those territories which
had three times served
as bases of aggression against her were to remain as such in the future. We
have further pointed out that an impoverished Italy who seeks and who continued
to receive foreign financial and other assistance at the same time seeks to
regain territories in an attempt to launch a fourth invasion of Ethiopia,
thanks to such foreign assistance. The case of Ethiopia is clear and requires
no further statement. Ethiopia has fought for more than a decade for justice.
It is time that she received it ....
Feb.
23, 1948.
Selected
Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie – page 188 –
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