--- title: 'Pictorial Review No. 17: Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar (Amharic-English poster distributed in Addis Ababa)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictorial-review-17-harar-military-academy-amharic-ethiopia-1958/ description: A bilingual Amharic-English photo sheet on the inauguration of the Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar on 6 October 1958. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Pictorial Review No. 17: Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar [![Pictorial Review No. 17: Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar, 1958 US poster: A bilingual Amharic-English photo sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pictorial-review-17-harar-military-academy-amharic-ethiopia-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pictorial-review-17-harar-military-academy-amharic-ethiopia-1958.jpg) # Pictorial Review No. 17: Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar (Amharic-English poster distributed in Addis Ababa) A bilingual Amharic-English photo sheet on the inauguration of the Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar on 6 October 1958. Photographs show the Emperor unveiling a plaque, inspecting and saluting cadets and receiving a trophy from an Indian general; the text names Indian officers on the staff and thanks Ethiopian ministries and the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The tell is transfer: the Emperor's and the plaque's formal authority is attached to the academy and the foreign assistance named. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Amharic and English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ስዕላዊ፡ መጽሔት። / PICTORIAL REVIEW Volume I Number 17 CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH WE, HAILE SELLASSIE I, ELECT OF GOD, EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA RECOGNIZING THE NECESSITY TO COMBINE THE NATURAL HEROISM OF OUR PEOPLE WITH THE TECHNIQUES OF MODERN WARFARE AND THUS TO AVOID UNNECESSARY LOSS OF LIFE IN THE HOLOCAUST OF WAR AND FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF OUR ARMED FORCES AND THE DEFENCE OF OUR FREEDOM HAVE, ON THIS THE SIXTH DAY OF OCTOBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT AND IN THE TWENTYEIGHTH YEAR OF OUR REIGN, INAUGURATED THIS MILITARY ACADEMY [Amharic caption, not transcribed] Plaque unveiled by His Majesty. An identical tablet in Amharic was unveiled at the ceremony. [Amharic text, not transcribed] The new Haile Selassie I Military Academy at Harar will, when the wishes of Emperor Haile Selassie I are fulfilled, serve as a high level training center not only for Ethiopia's future Army officers, but also for young men from friendly neighbouring countries. In dedicating the Academy during October, His Imperial Majesty said that the officer cadets "will constitute an impregnable bulwark against those who would violate Ethiopia's glorious tradition of liberty which, for centuries, has been handed down from generation to generation." His Majesty extended special thanks to Prime Minister Nehru of India for the assignment of a "fine team of officers to staff" the Academy. Col. N.S. Rawley, Indian Army Officer and Commandant of the Academy, called attention to the "considerable assistance which has been given to us by all Ministries and Departments of the Imperial Ethiopian Government and the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Ethiopia." [Amharic caption, not transcribed] His Imperial Majesty unveils the plaque at the Academy's main instructional block. [Amharic caption, not transcribed] His Majesty salutes as officer cadets pass in review. In rear are His Imperial Highness, the Crown Prince, left, and Col. Rawley, Academy Commandant. [Amharic caption, not transcribed] Major General P.S. Chowdhry, left, special representative of the Indian Government, presents a silver trophy to Academy. Holding the trophy is Major H.B.S Grewal. [Amharic caption, not transcribed] His Majesty inspects the cadets. Behind him is Ras Abebe Aregai, Minister of Defense. [Amharic caption, not transcribed] Cadets pass in review ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` English portions are as printed. The Amharic masthead reads 'Pictorial Review'; the Amharic captions and text parallel the English and are not separately translated here. ``` English text transcribed in full. The Amharic (Ge'ez script) columns, which parallel the English captions, are not transcribed here and are marked [Amharic text, not transcribed]; the Amharic masthead is given. The plaque text is partly visible in the larger photograph and fully legible in the smaller one; it is transcribed from the latter. 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