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Sylvia Pankhurst - Counsel for Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Sylvia Pankhurst - Counsel for Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Sylvia Pankhurst, the former British Suffragette, devoted the last
forty years of her life to Anti-Fascism and support for Ethiopia,
for many centuries Africa's principal independent state. She
responded to Mussolini's invasion of the country in 1935 by
founding a weekly newspaper New Times and Ethiopia News, which she
was to edit for twenty years. She protested against the Fascist use
of poison-gas in Ethiopia, and published news of the Ethiopian
patriot resistance. Her paper condemned Britain's "appeasement" of
the Axis Dictators, and supported the Republican Government in the
Spanish Civil War. After Mussolini's entry into the European War,
on the side of Nazi Germany, she agitated against the return to
Italy of her African colonies. Ever against colonialism, she
clashed with the British Government in demanding the full
restoration of Ethiopian independence, and advocated the "reunion"
of the former Italian colony of Eritrea with Ethiopia. She raised
funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively
on Ethiopian art and culture. Having moved to Addis Ababa in 1956,
with her son, the author, she founded a monthly journal, Ethiopia
Observer, on many aspects of Ethiopian life and development. She
died in 1960, and was buried with the Ethiopian Patriots, in front
of Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, in the presence of the
Emperor.
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