11.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - ON VISIT OF TURKISH LEADER

Important Utterances of H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I - page 114 -

14.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - MESSAGE TO WOMEN'S SEMINAR

  

MESSAGE TO WOMEN'S SEMINAR

Africa has accepted the challenge of the modern world and with it come grave responsibilities. Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon. African civilization in its potential magnitude must be able to command fortitude, patience, tolerance and diligence. To sustain us in all our tasks we count on the women of Africa. Without their relentless vigilance no aspect of our responsibilities can be attained. Woman’s role has never been so demanding, and you can be proud to answer this call for the betterment and future of mankind.

Ethiopia welcomes you and wishes you God-speed in your deliberations.

                                                                                                                                            Dec. 14, 1960.

Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie - page 213 –         

    

12.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - AT OPENING SESSION OF O.A.U. MEDIATION COMISSION

11.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - AWASH POWER PLANT / OPENING OF AWASH II

Important Utterances of H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I - page 114 - & SSoHIM - S. 584

10.12. - 2 - Speech of The Day - RECEIVED 18 STUDENTS FROM THE U.N. TRUST TERRITORY IN SOMALIA

His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, received

18 students who came from the U.N. Trust

Territory of Somalia for study in Ethiopian

Institutions of higher education under the Haile

Selassie I Scholarship Scheme on Wednesday,

December 10, 1958. On this occasion His

Imperial Majesty made the following remarks:

"It is Our realization that education is the tested

instrument by which a people reaches its civilised goals

that has led Us to bring you to this country to participate

in the provisions which exist for this purpose.

         A good educational background will enable one

to help himself and his people. The uneducated, on

the other hand, spends his life under the perpetual

guardianship of others, just like children in their earlier

years. The cultured are able to make their own decision

thus avoiding domination by others. And there is nothing

on earth more precious than individual freedom

and community independence.

The value of unity can be best assessed by those

who are enlightened; for such persons it is not easy to

destroy their oneness, because their minds are matured

by education. What guarantees the greatness of a

state? The unity of its people. Division into races,

tribes and sects does not detract from such unity. Sure-

ly you know of such names as the United Nations Trust

Somalia from which you have come; of British Somali-

land; and even in Our country of such places as Kaffa

and Arussi, These are all tribal names given to particular

sections of a country in which they live.

Ethiopia is but a general name for a vast territory

or state. In it live many tribes, but the important idea

is not the several tribes; it is the unity within the land

which they all call their own. As you advance in your

education, you will come to know the benefits to be de-

rived from unity in which you will play a useful part

both for yourselves and your  fellow men. With this

idea in mind, We admonish you to study with all your might."

Speeches delivered by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie Ist Emperor of Ethiopia on various occasions - page 96 -

10.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - GENERAL ELECTION

Important Utterances of H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I - page 172 -

                                                                      

 

 

07.12. - 1 - Speech of The Day - REPLIES TO PRES. TUBMAN'S TOAST

REPLIES TO PRES. TUBMAN'S TOAST

We thank Your Excellency for the warm and cordial sentiments which you have expressed on Our behalf and on that of Our people. Ethiopia and Liberia are old and respected friends, and it is fitting and proper that the leaders of these two nations should entertain for one another feelings of warm and deep friendship and that their peoples, united by these ties of mutual respect and admiration, should equally partake of these feelings.

We need not set forth in detail the long history of acquaintance between our two states which has brought their relations to the high level which they today enjoy. Long before much of this great continent of Africa was known to the outside world, Ethiopia and Liberia stood as twin symbols of independence, one in West Africa, the second on the other side of the continent, and the flame of freedom which these two states held high, flickering faintly at the outset, then growing in intensity, has swept from East to West, from North to South, and today it illuminates every corner of this vast land. History will attach high importance to the example of Liberia and Ethiopia, who demonstrated that Africans can and must be free, in accounting for the tide which is today sweeping colonialism and oppression from this continent.

In particular are We mindful of the sympathetic and fruitful co-operation which has marked relations between Ethiopia and Liberia at the United Nations. Ethiopia’s cause has been that of Liberia; Liberia’s cause that of Ethiopia, and We could ask for no greater blessing than that relations between our two countries will be maintained on this same high plane. This We are confident will be the case.

Combined Action

This same spirit of collaboration on problems of mutual concern is continuing at an accelerated pace today in the policies which these two African states are pursuing to the end of eradicating racial discrimination, that ignoble and most infamous of prejudices, from the face of the earth. Ethiopia and Liberia are today pressing a legal action before the International Court of Justice at the Hague, for the lifting of the mandate held by the Republic of South Africa over the territory of South-West Africa. We re-affirm here now our determination to pursue this course to its successful conclusion.

And, in the crisis in the Congo, in the efforts which We have made to find an amicable and just solution to the vexing problems which exist in that newly independent country, We have counted Ourself fortunate in the wholehearted co-operation of Your Excellency and in the sagacity and judgment which you have brought to this problem. The Congo represents, first and foremost, a problem for Africans, and it is Africans who must, putting aside superficial differences, collaborate in unity to restore order in the Congo, to ensure its territorial integrity, and to prevent the insinuation into the Congo, in whatever guise, of the colonialist influences of which the Congolese people have sought to rid themselves.

We look forward with calm confidence to yet further improvements in relations between us, and We hope that one of the results of the visit which We are paying to this great nation will be the taking of further measures to expand and broaden contacts between us. The initiation of direct air travel between Ethiopia and Liberia will, We hope, do much to facilitate the interchange of ideas, people and goods, and it is in this spirit that We desire that relations with Liberia grow and develop.

For, it is this development that leads to the strength of economy and mutual assistance.

                                                                                                                                              Dec. 7, 1960.

Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie - page 210 –