My previous article in these pages, on Ethiopia’s pre-war aeroplane Tsehai, currently kept in Italy’s aviation museum in violation of Article 37 of the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947 with the United Nations, has led to several repercussions, which we need not enter into at this moment. Mr. Ole G. Nordbo One repercussion, we can go into, however, is that my friend Ato Makonnen, formerly of Ethiopian Airlines, has presented me with a copy of an article on the aeroplane,…
While awaiting the return of the Aksum obelisk, looted from Ethiopia in 1937 on the personal orders of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and not yet returned in accordance with international agreements, we have perhaps time to look at another interesting question of loot, also still in Italy. This is the question of the Ethiopian aeroplane Tsehai, which was named after Emperor Haile Sellassie’s daughter Princess Tsehai – who later travelled with her father to England, and became a trained…