Last week His Imperial Highness, Haile Selassie, King of Kings and Lion of Judah, celebrated his 52nd birthday and faced a grave educational problem. Ethiopian illiteracy is rampant. While his country was under the Italian heel, every educated Ethiopian that could be found was systematically exterminated. For six years not an Ethiopian child was allowed to go to school.
In a population of 12,000,000 only about 5,000 children can now be accommodated in school. (Some 400 get Boy Scout training.) Ethiopia needs school buildings, it needs textbooks, but most of all it needs teachers.
The Ethiopian Minister to the U.S., His Excellency Blatta...
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