Haile Selassie's Letter

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Fascists countries and imperial powers, like Britain and France, believed that they could take over any nation and do what they please. The League of Nations was responsible for giving the rights of the people. In 1935, Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and the emperor Haile Selassie went straight to the League of Nations asking for freedom for his nation. The nations turned their eye to the attacks and soon Britain and France took over Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie wrote a letter to the League of Nations wanting freedom back for Ethiopia. He starts off the letter by stating that his people deserve justice and what they were promised. He begins to talk about in the past there has never been an extermination of an entire nation viciously. The Ethiopian

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