2-632-342 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Abyssinia Invaded', 1935, (1938). Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime invaded Abyssinia to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffered in Ethiopia in the First Italo-Abyssinian war. A photograph of Haile Selassie I (1892-1975) Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. From These Tremendous Years 1919-1938. [Daily Express, London, 1938]