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Abyssinia.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Iran. – in the House of Commons at on 1 October 1941.

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Photo of Colonel Josiah Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Wedgwood , Newcastle-under-Lyme

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the difficulties now being experienced by the Emperor of Abyssinia, he contemplates any change in the supervising administration of what used to be Italian East African territory, with a view to obtaining more sympathetic and progressive co-operation?

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