OPENING AGRICULTURAL SHOW
...It gives Us great pleasure to open the
Agricultural, Industrial, and Commercial Exhibition of Ethiopia. Standing here
in the outskirts of the City of Addis Ababa, We can look out across the fields
and forests of Ethiopia and We are deeply conscious of God’s great gifts to Our
beloved country. At the same time We may turn Our eyes back into the city where
We are aware of the rapid growths of the commerce and the industry of Our
people.
But even as We consider the numerous and
varied activities of Our people in the countryside and in the cities, We are
conscious of the ever increasing influence of those activities upon the life of
all peoples throughout the world and in turn of the influence of outside
activities upon the life of Ethiopia.
It is Our hope that this Exhibition will
not only reveal the progress that has been made in the agriculture, commerce
and the industry of Our people, but will contribute to the further expansion
and development of the economic life of the entire nation.
It is the duty of all to apply the skill
of their minds to the greater and greater use of God’s great blessings of farms
and field and forest and to make greater and greater use of the factories, the
trading centres and the roads and communications which are also evidence of
Ethiopia’s prosperity, of Ethiopia’s strength.
Nov. 17, 1951.
Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile
Selassie - page 482 -
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