Reclining at Bath, famed English spa, His Majesty Haile Selassie complained bitterly last week to Miss Steedman, a Secretary of the Abyssinia Association, about the results thus far of announcements that the onetime King of Kings & Lion of Judah is in a "distressed condition" (TIME, Nov. 15).
Kindhearted Britons at once began, sending him bagfuls of coal, jugs of home-made wine, baskets of greens and even unused postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world,...
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