(Betwadad Gctachu represented Abyssinia at Geneva in 1920; now Governor of
Maji Province in South-West Abyssinia.) Result, nil; and, after waiting for three
months, Hamad and Ahmed had to rejoin their father as the only alternative to
starvation. About live years ago the Abyssinian Government ordered that Fitaurari
Mohamed Wad Mahmud, the petty black chief of Dul, was to be arrested for
obstructing English gold prospectors. Dejach Igazu, formerly Minister for Foreign
Affairs and ...
reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. From 1951 through 1956. Africa 1954. Africa (general), Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan and Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, 1954
Finally, I assured Mahmud Bey that I was making and would continue to make
every possible effort to achieve a solution. 4. Mahmud Bey indicated that he
understood the difficulties He felt that it had been wrong of Egypt to link the
questions of defence with the Sudan It was important for his Government also that
a solution should be reached, as the Libyan opposition made capital out of the
present situation. 5. I then passed to the question of the forthcoming Libyan
elections, enquiring ...