Autographs of Sidney Barton, British minister to Ethiopia; Luigi [Count] Vinci, Italian minister to Ethiopia; and unidentified Ethiopian [signing a five-line note in Amharic], Addis Ababa, 16 April 1935, on a leaf from the autograph albums of Alfred Eisenstaedt. [With, on verso:] Signatures of Dr. Menander Zaimy(?), Dekeleia, 1934, with Greek Republic stamp; Dobrilla Glavinic Knez-Milojjkovic, Belgrade, 1934; and S—— Bernadotte, Berlin 1935.
Price: $150.00
About the item
5-1/2 x 8 inches. Binding holes at top of leaf and along one margin. Fine.
Item #55778
In 1935, the British essentailly stepped away from backing Ethiopia’s plea for League of Nations support against Italian aggression; Sidney Barton, the British minister in Addis Ababa, was instructed to tell Haile Selassie to reach a settlement with the Italians by admitting guilt and making concessions. Alfred Eisenstaedt was there.
