Editing Haile Selassie (section)

==== Reform efforts and relations with the West ====

On 4 October 1963, Selassie addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations.<ref>Brewer, Sam Pope (5 October 1963), [https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/05/archives/selassie-at-un-recalls-1936-plea-to-league-says-equality-of-all-is.html Selassie, at U.N., Recalls 1936 Plea to League] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722190426/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/05/archives/selassie-at-un-recalls-1936-plea-to-league-says-equality-of-all-is.html |date=22 July 2018 }}, ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/s/photo/detail/844/0084497.html|work=Emperor of Ethiopia Addresses General Assembly|title=Photo # 84497|publisher=United Nations|place=New York|date=4 October 1963|access-date=30 August 2013|archive-date=8 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108145709/http://www.unmultimedia.org/s/photo/detail/844/0084497.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[[s:Selassie's Address to the United Nations|Haile Selassie's Address to the United Nations]].</ref>

[[File:Haile-Selassie attending JFK's funeral.jpg|thumb|220x220px|At the [[state funeral of John F. Kennedy]], 25 November 1963|left]]

On 25 November 1963, the Emperor traveled to Washington, D.C., and attended the [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|state funeral of assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy]]. He was the only African head of state to attend the funeral.<ref name="Wamu 88.5">{{cite web|last1=Schwartz|first1=Matthew S.|title=Why is There Such a Large Ethiopian Population in the Washington Region?|url=https://wamu.org/story/16/04/21/how_did_the_dc_region_become_home_to_the_largest_population_of_ethiopians_in_the_us/|website=Wamu 88.5 American University Radio|access-date=14 March 2022|archive-date=24 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324055728/https://wamu.org/story/16/04/21/how_did_the_dc_region_become_home_to_the_largest_population_of_ethiopians_in_the_us/|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, he was the only one of the three prominent world leaders that would have another meeting with the new president, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], in Washington during his presidency; he met Johnson again during an informal visit to the United States in 1967.<ref name="LBJHeadsOfState">{{cite web|url=https://www.lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/lbjs-administration/head-of-state-visits|title=Head of State Visits|access-date=8 November 2022|work=LBJ Presidential Library|archive-date=6 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706033929/https://www.lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/lbjs-administration/head-of-state-visits|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Johnson and Haile Selassie Confer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 February 1967|page=2|agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Johnson Hails Selassie As an Ignored Prophet|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=14 February 1967|page=2}}</ref>

[[File:His and Her Majesties together viewing Haile Selassie I stadium in Addis Ababa.png|thumb|Selassie with Queen [[Elizabeth II]] in Addis Ababa on her 1965 state visit to Ethiopia]]

In 1966, Selassie attempted to replace the historical tax system with a single progressive income tax, which would weaken the nobility who had avoided paying most of their taxes.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schwab|first1=Peter|title=The Tax System of Ethiopia|journal=The American Journal of Economics and Sociology|date=January 1970|volume=29|issue=1|pages=77–88|jstor=3485226|doi=10.1111/j.1536-7150.1970.tb03120.x}}</ref> This law led to a revolt in Gojjam, which was repressed although enforcement of the tax was abandoned. Having achieved its design in undermining the tax, the revolt encouraged other landowners to defy Selassie.<ref>Zahru Zewde, ''A History of Modern Ethiopia'', second edition (London: James Currey, 2001), pp. 216ff, and Gebru Tareke, ''Ethiopia'', pp. 160–193.</ref> In October that year, Selassie had a four-day visit to the Kingdom of Jordan hosted by [[King Hussein]]. During this trip, Selassie visited Jerusalem and the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jordan: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Arrives in Amman to Start Official Visit|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/|access-date=15 September 2023|website=British Pathé|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228134836/https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Emperor Haile Selassie I with President LBJ.jpg|thumb|During a visit to Washington, D.C. with President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], 1967]]
While he had assured Ethiopia's participation in UN-approved collective security operations, including Korea and Congo, Selassie drew a distinction between it and the intervention in [[Indochina]], deploring it as needless suffering and calling for the [[Vietnam War]] to end. At the same time, he remained open toward the United States, commending it for making progress with African Americans' Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s and visiting the US several times during these years.<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 April 1965|title=The War in Vietnam|url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp67b00446r000300150023-8|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|access-date=23 March 2024|archive-date=23 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323174509/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp67b00446r000300150023-8|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Metaferia|first=Getachew|date=1995|title=The Ethiopian Connection to the Pan-African Movement|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45197577|journal=Journal of Third World Studies|volume=12|issue=2|pages=300–325|jstor=45197577|access-date=23 March 2024|archive-date=20 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120171147/https://www.jstor.org/stable/45197577|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Brewer|first=Sam Pope|date=17 February 1967|title=Ethiopia Willing to be Mediator; Haile Selassie Says Here He Would Lead Peace Effort|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/02/17/archives/ethiopia-willing-to-be-mediator-haile-selassie-says-here-he-would.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=24 March 2024|archive-date=24 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170517/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/02/17/archives/ethiopia-willing-to-be-mediator-haile-selassie-says-here-he-would.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1967, he visited [[Montréal]], Canada, to open the Ethiopian Pavilion at the [[Expo '67]] World's Fair where he received great acclaim among other World leaders there for the occasion.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20120314130919/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/expo/05330204_e.html Special Guests]". ''Expo 67: Man and His World''. Ottawa: [[Library and Archives Canada]]. 2007. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=14 April 1967|title=Canada: Strength for the Centennial|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,836954,00.html|magazine=[[TIME]]|access-date=24 March 2024|archive-date=24 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170517/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,836954,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Coyle|first=Jim|date=6 May 2017|title=Canada 150: When the impossible dream came true at Expo 67|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-150-when-the-impossible-dream-came-true-at-expo-67/article_44ff5067-c4f4-529e-98c5-a2a728f1c40e.html|work=[[Toronto Star]]|access-date=24 March 2024|archive-date=24 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170518/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-150-when-the-impossible-dream-came-true-at-expo-67/article_44ff5067-c4f4-529e-98c5-a2a728f1c40e.html|url-status=live}}</ref>