The Daily History Chronicle

On May 9, 1936, Mussolini proclaimed the Italian Empire from a balcony in Rome while 400,000 jubilant Italians cheered below, unaware that their army had used poison gas on civilians, bombed Red Cross hospitals, and poisoned rivers to win. This episode is not about Mussolini. It's about Haile Selassie, the exiled emperor who stood before the League of Nations and told the world exactly what its silence would cost and was right about everything.