Selassie was voted Time magazine’s Man of the Year
Man of the Year is essentially an annual issue of the American news publication Time. It reveals who had the biggest impact on the year's events. Haile Selassie's selection as Man of the Year in the 1936 Time magazine's Man of the Year awards is an intriguing fact.
Although Haile Selassie was fluent in French, the Federation's official working language, she decided to read her historic speech in her native Amharic. He claims that his people are now being massacred as a result of his "total faith in the Union." He emphasized that while supporting Italy, which is employing chemical weapons on military and civilian targets, the European countries that supported Ethiopia in the League of Nations refused Ethiopian credit and material.
The emperor became a global anti-fascist icon as a result of his speech. He didn't succeed in getting what he wanted, though: the Federation merely decided to slap weak sanctions on Italy. Only six nations: China, New Zealand, the Soviet Union, the Spanish Republic, Mexico, and the United States did not recognize the Italian occupation in 1937. It is frequently believed that the League of Nations disintegrated because it did not denounce the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
Unsurprisingly, the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica was launched by the articles of this American news magazine. It appears that two stories from Time magazine regarding Haile Selassie's coronation were sent to the aforementioned nation. The Rastafari belief that Selassie was the Avatara later spread throughout Jamaica.
