The Order of Primus St. Croix Presents:

Emperor Haile Selassie I's Address to Pope John Paul VI: Your Holiness, this is not the first time I have visited the Vatican, nor is it the first time I’ve had the opportunity of talking to your Holiness. I always paid homage to the Vatican and always was pleased to have the opportunity of encountering and discussing problems with you. One basic reason is that, We Ethiopians, as a Christian nation, We have long standing and satisfactory relations with the Catholic Church and the faith. Although We differ in name—the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church—but We must always remember We are all servants of the same Master, that is, Our Creator. The Catholic faith and men of Catholic religion have contributed to the enrichment of Our culture as well as to the enrichment of Our religious services. Ethiopia has a long standing tradition of religious tolerance and freedom; all the different types of faith in Our country are practiced with complete freedom and tolerance as guaranteed by

        Whereas, we shall have this day to celebrate in tandem with the global celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Organization, as it used to be celebrated in Ethiopia annually. Considering that the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization has resolved for celebration of the period between January 1968 to December 1968, under an international annual theme of Human Rights International Year; and our government has as well issued an order to this effect; and we hereby celebrate such a double holiday on this day of the United Nations Organization. The objective of the United Nations Organization and the functions, as it is declared in time, is to protect world peace, and engage towards improvement of the livelihood of all mankind, and thereby reinforcing the organization.       On such double themed holiday, We would like to inform particularly Our people about human rights. We observe from studying the history of mankind th

His Imperial Majesty's Speech to the Ogaden   delivered at Gabredarre, in the Ogaden, August 25, 1956 *     Our beloved son, the Duke of Harar, who has long been our Governor-General of the Ogaden, has already informed you of our keen interest, and of our long-range programme for the development of the Ogaden. You are already aware that it has always been our constant desire not only to come again to this great region of the Empire, but also to see for ourselves your difficulties, and in accordance with our promise, to have them alleviated.     We seize this opportunity to remember those gallant sons of the Ogaden who shed their blood with their brothers in the trying period of 1935, for the freedom of their country and for the honour of their Emperor.      Although it was their patriotic duty, we wish to commend those police posted in the Ogaden, who, in execution of our orders, left their homes and the comforts of life, and who a

The Order of Primus St. Croix presents the full transcript of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) Bill McNeil and Mr. Robert Thompson, former leader of the Social Credit Party in Canada, interview with His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the First aboard the Canadian Royal Train between Winnipeg and North Bay en route to the International and Universal Exposition (Expo 67) in Montreal on April 29, 1967:  [The grammar inconsistencies are a result of His Majesty altering between   Amharic ,   French   and   English   with the help   of an Ethiopian interpreter.] Bill McNeil:  Your Imperial Majesty, I’d like you to talk about your appearance before the League of Nations when you pleaded for your country in 1936. His Majesty:  Yes, the Ethiopian people as well as myself fought as much as we could on the ground the fascist aggressors, but as it is well known the fascists were well armed. They had the latest weapons, they h