Without warning, Italian armed forces invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935, quickly defeated the Ethiopian Army, and forced Emperor Haile Selassie into exile first in Palestine and eventually in Great Britain. On June 30, 1936, Emperor Selassie came before the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to plead for assistance. He decried the use of poison gas which killed civilians and soldiers alike and at the end said, “I ask what measures do you intend to take? What reply shall I have to take back to my people?”
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