NEGUS OPPOSES GASSING CIVILIANS IN VIETNAM
The use of noxious gas by the American imperialist troops in Vietnam reminded the Ethiopians of their. own bitter experiences when they were the target of aggression by Mussolini's troops in 1935. The March 30 Ethiopian Herald noted that "the United States has become the. first democratic nation to use gas since 1918,".
Haile Selassie's newspaper offered an impermissible concession to the Pentagon by declaring that the Americans used gas in Vietnam in “self-defense"; however, it said it refused to condone "gassing innocent civilians, especially when the fascist gas raids in 1935, comparable ny in “psyohological implications, are still fresh in the memory.
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