Editing Haile Selassie (section)

====Exile====

[[File:Fairfield House, Newbridge, Bath.jpg|thumb|[[Fairfield House, Bath]], was Selassie's residence for five years during the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]] and parts of [[World War II]]]]

Selassie spent his exile years (1936–1941) in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], England, in [[Fairfield House, Bath|Fairfield House]], which he bought. The Emperor and [[Kassa Haile Darge]] took morning walks together behind the 14-room Victorian house's high walls. His favorite reading was "diplomatic history". It was during his exile in England that he began writing his 90,000-word autobiography.{{Sfn | ''Time'' | 1937}}

Prior to Fairfield House, he briefly stayed at Warne's Hotel in [[Worthing]]<ref name="Worthing">{{cite book|last=Elleray|first=D. Robert|title=A Millennium Encyclopaedia of Worthing History|page=119|publisher=Optimus Books|location=Worthing|year=1998|isbn=978-0-9533132-0-4}}</ref> and in Parkside, [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=A&reference=publications/articles/2006summer/selassiewimbledon.php|title=Selassie at Wimbledon|date=Summer 2006|publisher=The Anglo-Ethiopian Society|access-date=24 April 2014|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801130138/http://www.anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=A&reference=publications%2Farticles%2F2006summer%2Fselassiewimbledon.php|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[bust of Haile Selassie]] by [[Hilda Seligman]] stood in nearby [[Cannizaro Park]] to commemorate his stay, and was a popular place of pilgrimage for London's Rastafari community, until it was destroyed by protestors on 30 June 2020.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.nycaribnews.com/articles/london-statue-of-haile-selassie-destroyed/|title=London statue of Haile Selassie destroyed|work=NY Carib News|date=3 July 2020|access-date=4 July 2020|archive-date=4 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704223345/https://www.nycaribnews.com/articles/london-statue-of-haile-selassie-destroyed/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Selassie stayed at the Abbey Hotel in [[Malvern, Worcestershire|Malvern]] in the 1930s, and his granddaughters and daughters of court officials were educated at [[Clarendon School for Girls]] in [[North Malvern]]. During his time in Malvern, he attended services at Holy Trinity Church, in [[Link Top]]. A [[blue plaque]] commemorating his stay in Malvern was unveiled on Saturday, 25 June 2011. As part of the ceremony, a delegation from the Rastafari movement gave a short address and a drum recital.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 October 2002|url=http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2002/10/18/Worcestershire+Archive/7679876.Exiled_emperor_at_home_in_hotel/|title=Exiled emperor at home in hotel|newspaper=Malvern Gazette|access-date=25 June 2011|archive-date=6 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406212044/http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2002/10/18/Worcestershire+Archive/7679876.Exiled_emperor_at_home_in_hotel/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=14 February 2003|url=http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2003/02/14/Worcestershire+Archive/7659680.Emperor_s_life_in_town_is_recalled_in_BBC_film/|title=Emperor's life in town is recalled in BBC film|newspaper=Malvern Gazette|access-date=26 June 2011|archive-date=6 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406212240/http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2003/02/14/Worcestershire+Archive/7659680.Emperor_s_life_in_town_is_recalled_in_BBC_film/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=5 May 2006|url=http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2006/05/05/Worcestershire+Archive/7845378._Princesses_were__my_school_chums_/|title=Princesses were my school chums|newspaper=Malvern Gazette|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|access-date=25 June 2011|archive-date=6 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406212053/http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/archive/2006/05/05/Worcestershire+Archive/7845378._Princesses_were__my_school_chums_/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, with Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford (left) and Colonel Wingate (right) in Dambacha Fort, after it had been captured, 15 April 1941. E2462.jpg|thumb|Haile Selassie with Brigadier [[Daniel Sandford (British Army officer)|Daniel Sandford]] (left) and Colonel [[Orde Wingate|Wingate]] (right) in Dambacha Fort, after its capture, 15 April 1941]]

Selassie's activity in this period was focused on countering Italian propaganda as to the Ethiopian resistance and the legality of the occupation.{{Sfn|Haile Selassie 1999|loc=vol. 2, pp. 11–12.}} He spoke out against the desecration of houses of worship and historical artifacts, including the theft of a 1,600-year-old imperial obelisk, and condemned the atrocities suffered by the Ethiopian civilian population.{{Sfn|Haile Selassie 1999|loc=vol. 2, pp. 26–27.}} He continued to plead for League intervention and to voice his certainty that "God's judgment will eventually visit the weak and the mighty alike",<ref name="progress25" /> though his attempts to gain support for the struggle against Italy were largely unsuccessful until Italy entered World War II on the German side in June 1940.<ref name="ofcan">Ofcansky, Thomas P. and Berry, Laverle (2004), ''Ethiopia: A Country Study''. Kessinger Publishing. {{ISBN|1-4191-1857-9}}, pp. 60–61.</ref>

Selassie's pleas for international support took root in the United States, particularly among African-American organisations sympathetic to the Ethiopian cause.{{Sfn | Haile Selassie 1999 | loc = vol. 2, p. 27}} In 1937, Haile Selassie was to give a Christmas Day radio address to the American people to thank his supporters when his taxi was involved in a traffic accident, leaving him with a fractured knee.{{Sfn | Haile Selassie 1999 | loc = vol. 2, pp. 40–42}} He delivered the address despite his injury, in which he linked Christianity and goodwill with the [[Covenant of the League of Nations]], and asserted that war can be resolved diplomatically.{{Sfn | Haile Selassie 1999 | loc = vol. 2, pp. 40–42}}

During this period, Selassie suffered several personal tragedies. His two sons-in-law, Ras [[Desta Damtew]] and Dejazmach [[Beyene Merid]], were both executed by the Italians.<ref name="progress25">{{Harvnb | Haile Selassie 1999 | loc = vol. 2, p. 25}}.</ref> The Emperor's daughter, Princess [[Romanework]], wife of Dejazmach Beyene Merid, was taken into captivity with her children, and she died in Italy in 1941.<ref name="him170">{{Harvnb | Haile Selassie 1999 | loc = vol. 2, p. 170}}.</ref> His daughter Tsehai died during childbirth shortly after the restoration in 1942.{{Sfn |Shinn | p = 3}}

After his return to Ethiopia, Selassie donated Fairfield House to the city of Bath as a residence for the aged.<ref>{{Citation|last=Haber|first=Lutz|url=http://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=O&reference=publications/occasionalpapers/papers/haileselassiebath.php|title=The Emperor Haile Selassie I in Bath 1936–1940|publisher=The Anglo-Ethiopian Society|series=Occasional papers|access-date=16 February 2008|archive-date=30 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130085518/http://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=O&reference=publications/occasionalpapers/papers/haileselassiebath.php|url-status=live}}.</ref> In 2019, two blue plaques commemorating his residence at Fairfield and his visits to nearby [[Weston-super-Mare]] were unveiled by his grandson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-49786813|title=Haile Selassie: Blue plaques for emperor unveiled in Somerset|publisher=BBC News|date=22 September 2019|access-date=24 March 2022|archive-date=24 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324212236/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-49786813|url-status=live}}</ref>